submitted by Edward Kelly
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Block Cable
Cross-connecting terminal used to connect underground cable to aerial cable or aerial to house cable
LIU
Compare the photo above with this photo of a modern Verizon vehicle.
LIU
#14 Test Desk
Ice damaged lines
Earth boring machine
Line truck and equipment
(also see this)
Red Bank NJ ice storm open wire
White line truck
rear view
White line truck with boom set
Device used to send inductive tone along pair cabling
Device used to send inductive tone along pair cabling
Device used to send inductive tone along pair cabling
Loading the barge
Cable Queen
Diver going down.
Laying cable at a river crossing
Fouled Anchor
Cable Laying
Cable-fault locating bureau(?)
Pump
Splice on submarine cable
Transmitter and Reciever
Front cable barge, cable ship, in background New York Central
RR steam tug
The Lineman and Supervisor on deck.
When I worked on submarine cable it came armored. It looks like they are wrapping it with steel wire.
I think this is the transmitter for locating buried cable
Unloading submarine cable from reel to barge. The six photos to the right are from the September 1956 New Jersey Bell magazine.
Mack Line Truck 50’s
Messenger Service Truck. Click HERE for description
GMC supply truck. Supply Trucks pulled out of the Western Electric Warehouse
Dodge cable-line maintenance truck
LIU
Rodder or Rodding Truck
Cable spicing in manhole
(Read this)
Pulling underground cable
Pulling underground
Reel end
Placing Load Pot
The reel end
Another Duct Rodding Truck
Rodder or Rodding Truck
Splicer’s Trailer?
(also see this)
