8/17/17 – 5:06 A.M.

The Fostoria Rail Preservation Society recently collected a couple of new exhibits. The Review-Times reports the organization now has a New York Central call box and a battery box on display. FRPS member Jim Roberts says the call box is what train crews used to communicate with a dispatcher before they had radios. He said there were call boxes every mile along railroad tracks.

The battery box kept train crossing gates running in case of a power outage.

Kevin Reinhart donated the boxes to the organization.

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