The Ellsworth, Maine telephone Museum is one of two great telephone museums in the United States where they encourage you to use the telephones and the telephone switches. This museum hosts one of the two remaining #3 Crossbar (#3XB) switches in the country. This museum is only open during the summer months. On rare occasions these switches are reachable via C-Net. These were recorded in June 2024 and July 2025. These were made over the Collector’s network (C-Net) using an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) via the Internet.
#3 Crossbar (327 Prefix)
Frequency Sweep (327-1327) (July 2025)
Single Ring (327-2210) (July 2025)
Busy (327-9926) (July 2025)
Double Ring (327-9955) (June 2024)
The #3XB tone plant is similar to that of a #1ESS, but the interrupters are all mechanical!
#5 Crossbar (338 Prefix)
Intercept Recording (338-6090)
Info Line (338-6511)
CX-100 (334 Prefix)
Ring (334-2910) (July 2025)
Intercept Recording (334-4321) (July 2025)
Ring (334-9955) (June 2024)
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