A Communication Throwback
Trains didn’t always have radios for talking to dispatchers in search of clear routes around the country. Pre-radio days, they had places with telephones to call in and get permissions between stations. This relic concrete phone shack is on the old Baltimore & Ohio route at Avalon siding between Ilchester and Relay. In one of the photos you can see a phone box from a later era.
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This concrete railroad telephone shed still sits in Patapsco River State Park in St. Denis on the old B&O line
A ventilation pipe in the top may indicated a heater of some sort.
The lightning bolt on CSX locomotives is left over from the days of bragging that they were equipped with radio communication, replacing the old phone system.
A clear view.
Nature encroaching on derelict technology.
A next era phone box is nearby.
