[GreenKeys] Railroad use of Teletypes

[Nick England]

Here you go

https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/sales/RailroadBrochure.pdf



Nick England K4NYW
Chapel Hill NC
www.navy-radio.com

On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM Jim Haynes via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, John Nagle via GreenKeys wrote:
>
> > Re: Railroad use of Teletypes:
> >
> > https://youtu.be/xFnxFMOZtmk?t=237
>
> Somewhere in the archives is a booklet about railroad use of
> Teletype equipment.  Some sales engineer at Teletype did a lot
> of homework to prodeuce that.
>
> > Very few of the other pre-WWII designs still run. There was one
> > guy who claimed to have a working Model 12.
> >
> Model 12s were the mainstay of amateur radioteletype in the early
> years.  Seems like I heard that after WW-II organizations like
> the New York police dept.  was replacing all their 12s now that
> Model 15s had become available and Teletype was no longer supplying
> spare parts for the 12s and now that 12s were wearing out.
> 12s were not well liked by the hams but they were all that could
> be had.  One defect was that the 12s had receiving distributors
> feeding multiple magnets and that created a lot of RF noise; but
> then the original ham RTTY was mostly done on VHF.
>
> Then in the mid 1950s the Bell System started getting rid of Model 26s
> and that became the machine of choice for the hams.
>
> Just a few days ago I ran across a picture of a young Bill
> Fulbright and his mother looking at news copy coming off a
> Model 12.  Bill went on to be president of the University of
> Arkansas and later one of the U.S. senators for Arkansas.
> His mother was publisher of the Northwest Arkansas Times
> newspaper.
>
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