(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.

I remember Les Keiter doing the recreations in 1958. I thought it was
WMCA which had been the NY Giants station but i could be wrong. Mutual
Radio did a game of the day at least as late as '57.
Two stories about re-creations:


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This thread has kind of grabbed me and I'll tell you why and also I guess
there's a question also.

*Right before* I got into the hobby, through a goodwill store or some place
like that, I happened upon a ?????.

The reason I took it actually was because it was going to be pitched, and I
don't remember the particulars of it, like the exact look or anything, but I
remember what was on it......oh how I wished I had kept it -if it had been
maybe another five months I would've kept it because I got into 'electronics.'
cb/scanners/shortwave in that order and haven't turned back :-)

But it was a recorder of some sorts. It was extremely old, and how I know
without remembering of seeing a date on it or whatever is it actually was
because of the reason I grabbed it. I'm a sports fans.

This recorder was (if I remember right) longer than my hand and a little of my
forearm in length, I can't remember the width, but it had actual reel to reel
tape on it. The voice on it was 'someone' (DARN I wished I had this thing)
doing the Cincinnati Reds vs. Brooklyn Dodgers and they were doing play by play
and this guy was reading what was happening as you could hear 'typing' {?} in
the background.

But it was innings 1 though 6 and then went to a lady speaking to a man,
completely different- like the game part was stopped and then this started.
Being a Reds fan like I am, I remember thinking "I don't want anything like
this sitting around." Never thinking of the historical significance either-I
just didn't think like that. Wow- how radio changes you.;-)

It was old looking and it stuck out like a thumb and back then - I just didn't
think of any type of electronic equipment except the typical of having.

I've always wondered what exactly was that I had at one time, but I do know the
era because of the names of the players and the game was at Ebbets Field and it
was the Brooklyn Dodgers against my beloved Reds. Should have kept it. :-(

Can someone tell me maybe what actually it was, and did I pitch something of
big-time value?

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Joel Rubin wrote:
I've asked this question before, but now that the most famous
practitioner of this art has died, it seems time to ask it again.

At one time, bandwidth was so expensive that not only couldn't you
post a large binary in a non-binary group -) but it was too expensive
to get a broadcast-quality phone line to broadcast a Chicago Cubs game
over radio station WHO in Des Moines.


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.

Charlie who later worked at WIND but by then WGN had the Cubs.

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.

"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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