Private Collector Step by Step

 

The following are sounds from preserved step by step switches by a private collector in Mattoon, Illinois. The switches are connected to the regular phone network where an outside person can call in and using Touch Tones can make calls on the switches.

The following switches are represented here:

682 prefix: FTR-Kellog (later ITT Kellog)
FTR (Federal Telephone and Radio) central office (later Kellog, still later ITT-Kellog, and finally ITT when they ceased manufacturing) from 1953. The switch closely resemble the Automatic Electric style.

486 (IVanhoe) Prefix: Stromberg-Carlson XY

375 Prefix: Automatic Electric

FTR-Kellog Switch (682 Prefix)

Recordings were made in November 2002. At the time these were made, the call-in adapter was on this switch.

Dial Tone

(Note – The faint MF tones you hear are from the AT&T pre-paid calling card platform that I used when I was making these recordings)

Busy Signal

Reorder Signal

Ringback Signal

Stromberg-Carlson XY Switch (486 Prefix)

Recorded in November 2006. At the time these were made, the call-in adapter was on this switch.

Alarm Circuit

Dial Tone

Busy Signal

Reorder Signal

Ringback Signal

1000 Hz Tone

(375 Prefix)

Recorded in November 2006. At the time these were made, the call-in adapter was on the 486 switch.

Alarm Circuit

Busy Signal

Reorder Signal

Ringback Signal

 

Pay Phones connected to the vintage switches

The following is a picture of a working pay phone outside the shed where the FTR-Kellog switch is located. The people in the photo are the owner of the switch and his family in an undated photo.

Charge-A-Call phones and phone booths – hooked up to the FTR switch detailed above.

 

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