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Re: [CBQ] Re: Track Assignments...now another means of communication

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From: "Archie" <kliner@mywdo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:21:36 -0600
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Pete,  We had one on the K Line on the Viele curve.  Now there wasn't a depot 
there, but there was a track side telephone box that could have been wired the 
same way.  Our old heads called it a Tattletale.   Archie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com 
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 12:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Track Assignments...now another means of communication


  Steve and Lenny...I had almost forgotten that I put up the post re another 
  means of communication..ie THE WHANGDOODLE. Since no one had responded. 

  I think you're right that there was a Whanger at Watson and/or Corning. I 
  recall that there was one at Craig during my growing up years when I would be 
  at Langdon with my dad for 21 and 26 and if the right operator was on duty I 
  would grab the DS phone and listen...

  At Craig (if memory serves correctly) the WHANGER had a special 
  feature...There was a dog who would begin to bark, even before you could hear 
the train 
  coming.

  For those who don't yet know what the Whangdoodle was here's a brief 
  explanation...Subject to correction by Steve and/or Lenny or any former "old 
time" 
  operator or dispatcher.

  The Whangdoodle was simply a microphone mounted someplace on the outside of 
  the depot, probably up under the eaves someplace to protect it from the 
  weather. It was connected to the dispatcher's phone circuit. The operator, 
upon 
  going off duty, would turn on the Whangdoodle when he left. When the DS 
  wanted to find out when a train was actually passing a station, he would "key 
in" 
  that station with his "ringer" and could then hear what was going on around 
  the depot, and hopefully, hear the train going by, thus he would know exactly 
  where said train was. 

  The fact that the whangdoodle would pick up surrounding sounds, including 
  people who were around the depot platform, who, of course, did not know that 
  they were being "eavesdropped" on... led to some interesting 
'situations"...The 
  late Robert Brown sent me a little story, a few years ago which I think 
  comes close to be the epitome of Whangdoodle stories...I've got it with my 
  "stuff"..ran across it the other day when I was looking for something....I 
read 
  just recently that the average person spends 55 minutes each day looking for 
  something he knows he has, but can't find. When I get it dug out I'll post it 
  here.

  Pete

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