Western Railroad Discussion > SP concrete phone booth saved

For those that were worried about the concrete phone box being saved it miraculous reappeared next to the Dunsmuir Museum. It sat for years in front of the Mallet Shed which is being demolished. Its now in front of the mural that was painted on the side of the Amtrak Station which house's the museum.

Robert Morris Photography
http://www.snowcrest.net/photobob/index.html

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Thanks for the update, glad to hear it was saved.

Larry

Also liked the octagonal electrical building, one example of which is just around the corner of the building. I've been told the Octagonal style and the colored concrete booths were more of a southern area feature, as opposed to the Oregon Division, or Portland Division or Northern Division depending on which re-organization. There was an article about them somewhere, maybe just the drawings in the Steam Era Common Standard publications.



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That is good news.

Picture 1: SP Phone booth at Oceano RR Museum, May 2013
Picture 2: SP Phone booth on Cuesta north of SLO near Goldtree with California Mens' Colony prison in the background. Now at SLO RR Museum.
Bill Pyper
Salem, OR



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Davis CA had a octagon next to the tower. It may begone now. OERM has one also. The OERM also has a phone both, it holds a ATM.



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Wow, saw something like this in Central Mesa about a week ago.  Never knew what it is.

SouthWest RailCams
CA, NM, CO, TX, AZ
https://SouthWestRailCams.com

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There are 7 or 8 of these left along the SD&AE in Southern California!

Mike

East end of the Colorado River bridge in Yuma, Arizona 11 June 2017 32°43'38.7"N 114°36'55.2"W

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There was one in the yard at Hermiston,Or. in late 1979.
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GN_X838 Wrote:
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> There was one in the yard at Hermiston,Or. in late
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Why would a SP phone shed be in Hermiston on the UP?

Larry Dodgion
Wilsonville, OR

Our Medford, Oregon Railroad Park also has one.

Good news !

How about the big doors on the Mallet Shed, supposedly they were from an old SP roundhouse ?

TCnR wrote:

> Also liked the octagonal electrical building ... There was an article about them somewhere...

See pages 58-61 of "Ron Tarjany on Trackside Structures, Vol. 1," featuring an octagonal relay house that was at Saugus (photocopies can possibly be obtained by contacting the Kalmbach Memorial Library).

>.. maybe just the drawings in the Steam Era Common Standard publications.

Not quite the correct name. Drawings are on pg. 78 of Steam Age Equipment Co.'s "Southern Pacific Lines Common Standard Plans Vol. 5" (photocopies or scans of this can probably be obtained from the Calif. State RR Museum Library).

(one difference between the Saugus relay house and the SP drawing in the Steam Age Equipment Co's. publication is that on the Saugus building, the recessed portions of the walls extended only to about 9 inches above the base of the building - like in the photo at Yuma posted by RedFusee - while in the SP drawing, the recessed portions of the walls extend all the way to the base)



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How much do they weigh?

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Ok, can I go play now?

Could they have painted it a different color...kind looks like a gentleman's sausage...