Telegraph Telephone

By Eric Wampner; posted July 30, 2009

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The museum had one of these telegraph telephones in it and I was able to contact the person who donated it, and they had one more. It is really neat. The schematic under the lid is embossed with CB&Q RR......which was the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad. They used these to splice directly into the telegraph lines and call out from anywhere along the tracks. Does anyone else have any of these?

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