Still have party lines here in rural New York. I called Verizon awhile back trying to get wiring information on using some old phones that had once been on party lines. Found out that right now, Verizon still has over 6000 customers in this area on party lines. No new accounts can get a party line; they are just letting the old accounts die off or upgrade.
Funny thing is, sometimes old tech is better than new tech. I was trying to get a phone that would work in an unheated building. Found out that just about all push button phones will NOT work in extreme cold. That because they use gel-switches in the buttons. I called the phone company, and the first thing they told me is - they are no longer in the "phone" business; just the wires - when it comes to household phones. But, I finally got hold of an engineer and found that that ALL the old phones worked fine in cold. That includes all the rotaries and the first push button phones that had mechancial push-button switches (like the old Princess phones). Now, if you want to buy a mechanically swithed phone, they cost a fortune (it's what's used in outdoor phone booths).
I have a bunch of old phones from this area, but all had been on party lines and there is internal wiring that has to be swapped to make them work on regular lines.
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