Otter Tail Power - Wilkin County, MN
The literal end of the last incarnation of the Fairmount, ND - Tenney, MN line. The first line through the area was a 13.2kV transmission line built around 1914 from Fairmount, ND to serve Tenney, Campbell, and Doran. By the 1950s, the company was operating this line as a long-distance 12.47kV distribution circuit. Sometime after that, most of the line was rebuilt to 41.6kV and substations installed near Campbell and at Doran.
This segment was severely damaged in the Thanksgiving 2005 ice storm and the company decided that the line from Campbell to Tenney was goot 'nuff to serve the elevator (and other remnants of this small town), so this pole stood alone for a while before it eventually came down.
Otter Tail Power - Wilkin County, MN
The literal end of the last incarnation of the Fairmount, ND - Tenney, MN line. The first line through the area was a 13.2kV transmission line built around 1914 from Fairmount, ND to serve Tenney, Campbell, and Doran. By the 1950s, the company was operating this line as a long-distance 12.47kV distribution circuit. Sometime after that, most of the line was rebuilt to 41.6kV and substations installed near Campbell and at Doran.
This segment was severely damaged in the Thanksgiving 2005 ice storm and the company decided that the line from Campbell to Tenney was goot 'nuff to serve the elevator (and other remnants of this small town), so this pole stood alone for a while before it eventually came down.