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on ground at Warehouse Point Trolley Mus.,CT. These stepped up the 480v to 2400v for the rest of the museum.
This was an inexpensive antique shop find in central Illinois, and not one you come across often.
9/27/2019
double circuit with 3-parts, most likely M3600s. Now carrying 13kv dist. lines.National Grid (Niagara Mohawk).
Three old pieces of porcelain, whose wires were long cut away, adorn a boarded up and partially collapsed building. These particular pieces are very uncommon, and it was neat to see three on one bracket.
December 2018
most of these were found or given to me. Want a certain type of insulator? Buying one either at a show or online could be your best bet now.
This single pair subscriber line pole still stands in Northeastern Missouri, serving now only to mark a terminal pedestal along the now buried cable route adjacent to a gravel country road. The two Hemingray 9s, one from the early 40s on the left, and one from the mid 30s on the right, are probably original installs on this line. They ain't built like this anymore, with the woodpecker pins and steel support brackets nailed to a pole, using glass insulators to hold copper or steel wire.
8/5/2024
Marion County, MO
Year Made: 1880's to 1940's
Manufacturer: Hemingray Glass Company
Color: aqua green
Height: 4 inches
Weight: 17.5 ounces
Width: 3 1/4 inches
Style number: 19
CD number: 162
Embossing Index Number: 070
Voltage: Secondary Power
Embossing: HEMINGRAY (front) , No̲ 19 (rear)
I always love to see these old telegraph poles alongside railroad lines. Some (such as this one at MP 221.24 of the Fox River sub) even have some wires leftover, albeit long removed from their days of relaying delays, time tables, crew changes, and much, much more.
For me, this image reminisces longingly of a different era of railroading; a time underscored with the rhythmic melodies of dits and dots, clacking jointed rail, and a powerful descant rendered by whistle, perhaps performed for none to hear but the still night air.
an odd way to run double ckt. lines. Port Jefferson, NY. Lines branched off both directions on next poles at street. (see next photo).
A haven for artists is the Insulator Factory in Spotswood,a western suburb of Melbourne.
Four exposures tone mapped in Photomatix.
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.
The base of insulators on the shelf above becomes halos for insulators below which look like angels with wings from Tom Katonic's collection.
A gaggle of Hemingray 43s in two of the several flavors in which they can be found are lined up along a wall. These all must have fallen off nearby poles sometime in the very recent past, as they were clean and sitting on top of the grass when I picked them up.
Forty years ago today I found my first glass along the bank of a creek just down the street from my house. I suspect these were dumped by someone rather than being used nearby. The assortment was Hemingray and Armstrong CD 129s and 155s, along with a pair of common brown porcelain cables. The insulator on the right is one of those pieces of glass, an Armstrong dated 1970.
To celebrate forty years of this nonsense, I wanted to pick forty Hemingray 40s. The only place I knew I could do so in quick and easy fashion was a 3.75 hour drive, so I hit the road around 2:30 this morning for a little sunrise pole harvest. Indeed I removed forty of them and hit the road back south. I don't have a pic of all forty arranged yet, but the one on the left is the last one that came down this morning.
11/7/2023