Metal, Paint, Wood, Glass, Light, Darkness
Two glass insulators covered in bridge paint hang from the underside of a metal bridge taking the BNSF Hannibal Subdivision over Riverview Drive in St. Louis, MO.
These insulators held wires for St. Louis's fire alarm system, an open wire system abandoned sometime around the late 70s. This particular run was aligned perpendicular to the BN, and went under instead of over the tracks. I took this pic in July of 2018, probably forty years after the wires were pulled. In July of 1988 a friend and I removed the glass on the other arm by feeding a discarded garden hose found nearby up and over the arm, then pulling ourselves up to the arm. If I tried that today, after thirty five years of focused abdominal body building, I'd probably rip the whole bridge down, and I'd never make it an inch off the ground.
Metal, Paint, Wood, Glass, Light, Darkness
Two glass insulators covered in bridge paint hang from the underside of a metal bridge taking the BNSF Hannibal Subdivision over Riverview Drive in St. Louis, MO.
These insulators held wires for St. Louis's fire alarm system, an open wire system abandoned sometime around the late 70s. This particular run was aligned perpendicular to the BN, and went under instead of over the tracks. I took this pic in July of 2018, probably forty years after the wires were pulled. In July of 1988 a friend and I removed the glass on the other arm by feeding a discarded garden hose found nearby up and over the arm, then pulling ourselves up to the arm. If I tried that today, after thirty five years of focused abdominal body building, I'd probably rip the whole bridge down, and I'd never make it an inch off the ground.