Pole Line Insulators
To many people they were telephone poles, but to the railroad they were a pole line or a code line. The wires strung on these poles were integral to the communications network of the railroad whether was carrying telephone circuits, telegraph lines or wires used to line signals.
Railroads have switched to other communications technology and removed most of their once ubiquitous trackside poles. This particular pole is part of a display at a railroad museum in Conneaut, Ohio, next to a former New York Central line.
Many people have on display on their homes one or more glass insulators used on the poles.
Pole Line Insulators
To many people they were telephone poles, but to the railroad they were a pole line or a code line. The wires strung on these poles were integral to the communications network of the railroad whether was carrying telephone circuits, telegraph lines or wires used to line signals.
Railroads have switched to other communications technology and removed most of their once ubiquitous trackside poles. This particular pole is part of a display at a railroad museum in Conneaut, Ohio, next to a former New York Central line.
Many people have on display on their homes one or more glass insulators used on the poles.