Come to think of it, those sounders communicated not with a dah-dit,
but with a clacka-clacka.

*THAT'S* is what I heard, not a type writer but I didn't know how to describe
it!!!! That's it.:-)


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Charlie wrote:

I can remember (barely) that when WIND in Chicago carried the Cubs in
middle 40's (or so) they would recreate a game whenever the Cub's game
was rained out. I believe the White Sox station would also do this on
rain outs. Both stations were very good at it. Crowd noise, hitting
something for the bat sound, etc.

Sounds a lot like what happened in an episode of the TV show "M*A*S*H" where
Frank bets on games he heard the results of the previous night on the radio.
Hawkeye creates a new game and gets Frank back.

(GO BEARCATS) wrote in message ...
Come to think of it, those sounders communicated not with a dah-dit,
but with a clacka-clacka.

*THAT'S* is what I heard, not a type writer but I didn't know how to describe
it!!!! That's it.:-)


The B&O Railroad still had a telegraph line in operation between
Cumberland MD and Connellsville PA up until 1985. It wasn't used
seriously for dispatching, but the older operators used it informally.
As long as the line remained up and needed no serious, costly repairs,
the railroad kept it.

That changed in November, 1985, when Wills Creek, swollen by heavy
rains, overflowed its banks. The floods tore down the pole line. That
was the end of the telegraph. To the best of my knowledge, this was
the last mainline telegraph line in the US.

In the late 70s, I took a lousy tape recorder with me into the
interlocking tower in Hyndman PA. I have a few minutes' worth of
poorly recorded audio. The sounder makes an appearance on that tape.

I still have the tape. I ought to turn that into an mp3 file and try
to get it posted to one of those RR-enthusiast Yahoo! groups.

Now even the interlocking towers are gone; Sand Patch for sure, and I
believe Hyndman as well.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

In article ,
J. McLaughlin wrote:


I do not remember ball games, but I sure do remember Col. McCormick
giving a talk (usually on some bit of military history?) before a

He had a regular weekly broadcast on Mutual network back about 1950.
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"Joel Rubin" wrote in message
...


Well, anyway, I'd like to know if the telegraphic reproduction of the
San Francisco Giants game over WAAT in Hackensack, NJ, during the 1958
season, was the last such broadcast, and, since I was about 7 years
old, then, I should like to know the details.


During the 1962 season Russ Hodges (and perhaps Lon Simmons) did recreations
of parts of the Dodgers final games that had a bearing on the pennant race
that eventually ended up in a Giants/Dodgers tie. I don't know if the
information came from the wire or an off-air monitor.

Tom


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