Re: (erielack) Re: radio equipped

[hoboken_@_ezrs.com]

And today, with assigned radio channels so crowded with dispatchers and
operators issuing orders, conductors repeating them, yardmasters advising
incoming trains where to drop cars, etc., it's often easier and more
efficient to do it by hand signal on a shorter train.  It's no fun having
to be told 4 times to stop, but the message never got through because of
the constant chatter.

Ken Bush

> Sometimes I just have to laugh out loud...
>
> In practice, through the 1960s, and I am certain right up to the end, the
> real question was was the railroad equipped with working radios.
>
> The F units, and particularly the 1200 Geeps might have the decal, but the
> radio inside did not often work.  If it did work, often the range was
> barely
> farther than you could shout.  Same thing with walkie-talkies, which
> started
> out about the size of Korean War field radio sets.
>
> Real observation: when you are calling someone on the radio and are
> getting
> no response, you tend to press the receiver harder against your ear. I bet
> Walter Smith still has a flat right ear.
>
> Best,
> Len VanderJagt
>
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