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The Telephone Museum is located in Ellsworth, Maine. A friend of mine (probably some of you know him) got me more interested in telephones and CO switches after him talking about the museum. So last year I finally got up there to check it out, and became a member on the trip.

Anyway, I went back this past weekend to see what's new and to help out. Ended up hanging some insulation and helping my friend tone out some cut 30something pair cables going into a D4 Channel Bank wire wrap terminal block (see below).



The good stuff:








A #3 Crossbar switch that was formerly in the Bradford, ME central office. It's pretty darn cool. We were screwing around with calling the milliwatt line from separate numbers and occasionally the #3 would throw a fit, get angry, slap relays, and throw alarms.