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. These were made over the Collector’s network (C-Net) using an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) via the Internet.
#3XB Double Ring (327-9955)
The #3XB tone plant is similar to that of a #1ESS, but the interrupters are all mechanical!
CX-100 Ring (334-9955)
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