Up one level omfuxs » JHebbeln » Omaha-Nebraska

Omaha-Nebraska
Photos of the Omaha Nebraska C.O. by Jim Hebbeln.

Omaha-NE-NE This view is from the northeast looking southwest. The route from the Red Oak, IA junction via Mineola, IA is
Omaha-NE-NNW These pictures are taken from the north-northwest toward the southeast.
Omaha-NE-NNW_closer These pictures are taken from the north-northwest toward the southeast.
Omaha-NE-SSW This is the south side of the Omaha, NE complex. The antennas facing slightly left of the camera are aimed southwest to Gretna, NE and onward to Lincoln, NE (the state capital). Lincoln Tel & Tel, an independent telco, provided service to the southeastern quarter of Nebraska. I believe that it has merged with a larger conglomerate of independents.

This album has 4 items in total    |    Album was updated 9/6/04 7:00 PM 


Info:
August 08, 2004

Omaha, NE is located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, atop a central office building that likely contains not only the local switching equipment, but toll switching system(s). Before the Bell System Divestiture in 1984, it contained a #4A Crossbar toll switch that was a Class 2 Sectional Switching Center (below the Class 1 Norway Regional Switching Center in the five class hierarchy) and it served towns in Nebraska, western Iowa, and, perhaps, northwestern Missouri. Omaha was part of AT&T's original transcontinental microwave route from New York to San Francisco which was placed in service in 1951 to carry coast-to-coast network television, and, later, thousands of phone calls. These pictures were taken July 9, 2004.