PRR trainphone question

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Hi all,

I recently picked up a Bowser PRR N5c caboose painted for the Philadelphia division and want to know would cabooses serving on that division have had trainphone hardware installed at any time in the mid to late 50s.

Thank you

Alvie

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Trainphone was used system wide by then. More then likely the Philly div cabin would have been in pool service by the late 50s. and used system wide also.

Pete

3

Train Phone was not used in the electrified areas due to interference. I failed to mention that in my earlier reply. http://kc.pennsyrr.com/faqs/trainphone.php

Pete

4

Pete,

Thanks for your info.

I did not realize that the Trainphone system was not used in the electrified ares.

I have quite a few Pennsylvania RR. equipment, which I try to operate prototypically.

Ralph

5

There’s a nice article about Pennsy’s Trainphones at Keystone Crossings, and; a half-dozen pages of proper placement of trainphone lines on various diesels at (the bottom) Jerry Breon’s PRR of the 1940s.

Note the article mentions PRR’s promotional film, Progress on the Rails, and its description/diagrams of the trainphone – Posted on YouTube.

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just because the system was not used in the electrified areas does not mean that cabs and locomotives with the equipment installed did not operate there. they just turned the trainphone off.

grizlump