RAILROAD SIGNALS of the U.S.

RAILROAD
TELEPHONE and TELEGRAPH
EQUIPMENT
Including Telephone Poles and Insulators

Telephones
Telegraphs
Telephone Boxes
Telephone Poles
Insulators

This section covers telephones and telegraphs that were used on the railroad, and their associated cousins, insulators, phone boxes and telephone poles.

Railroad Telephones

  A dispatchers microphone, in so-so condition

Railroad Telegraphs

        A couple of telegraph sounders 

   An overall shot of one guys offering, and detail shots below

The above shots were taken at the Gaithersburg MD train show on 11/05/2006

Railroad Telephone Boxes

           
A phone box on the old New York Central main line in Depew NY, on the east side of Buffalo

Railroad Telephone Poles

     
A couple of shots of pole lines - courtesy of Jim Mihalek from the Minneapolis MN area.
Taken around Leipsic, OH, on the old NKP - March 3, 2005

  A pole next to the ex-NYC depot in Batavia NY   Aug2006

     A pole line on the CP in Lancaster NY, just outside Buffalo

Railroad Telephone Pole Insulators

 
A table full of insulators at the Gaithersburg MD train show 11/5/2006....
Most were going for only 3 or 4 bucks.... I dunno how they paid for a $75 table that way!

New: 9NOV2006
Mod: 16-Mar-2010