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An electrical insulator from my collection, marked Gayner No. 48-400. I found it along railroad tracks, the soot from steam engines has left black stain on it.
The newish begonia... my pal, Diane, gave me this fabulous begonia a couple of months ago. It's the child of one of hers. It languished on the far side of my pergola for a while and didn't do squat, but I finally caught on that it was getting too much sun and moved it to this side, where it gets more filtered rays, and it has flourished! I guess as soon as the frost hits, it'll be goodbye begonia - till next year - but for now, it's such a joy to behold from my kitchen windows and whenever I venture out the back door.
Here is one for you Bri. I noticed all the different colors of insulators on this pole. I don't think I've ever seen blue or white before. Exeter, NH. Digiscope. June 1, 2009.
Year Made: 1905+
Manufacturer: Brookfield Glass Company
Color: aqua
Height: 4 1/8 inches
Weight: 22 ounces
Width: 3 1/8 inches
Style number: 21
CD number: 145
Voltage: Telegraph
Embossing: D (on top), B (on two sides)
A large chunk of Hemingray 40 insulator finds itself consumed by rocks and sand along the Missouri River in Saint Charles, MO. It was most likely a veteran of the adjacent MKT railroad line.
1/30/2022
Two contractors cut down a code line pole along BNSF's Cuba Sub on a nice Spring day. The pole had an old hand painted Frisco mile sign on it. Railroad lines just look too sterile without a pole line.
4/27/2006
Glass dead ends marked with EIV, or “Europeenne d'Isolateurs en Verre,” hang on to some 34 kV lines put up around 1970. These were replaced a short time later and found new life in an artist’s shop in Colorado. No telling what he ever did with them.
June 2019
Left to right is an HG CD 133 probably from the late 1890s or early 1900s. Next is a Brookfield CD 133 that is post 1900. I don't have the info handy sources anymore, but there was a year Brookfield started using the W for William in their marking, and I think it was early in the 1900s. Last is an HG No 7 Standard with a backward S and a cool ghost embossing on the crown. The backward S was most likely brought to us by a mold engraver who may have had a shot or twelve of Brandy before work, or back in the 1890s when this glass was made, during work. What I do know is that these all fell off a pole earlier in the day that I lined them up and photographed them. They once supported the circuits for the City of STL fire and police signals, which were largely phased out by the 1970s. A lot of this abandoned glass remained on utility poles into the 2010s, the last being removed around sunrise on July 11th, 2020, leaving only few broken ones here and there across the city.
9/30/2009
During our very short dog walk today we spotted these workers renewing the insulators on the electricity poles.
353/365/2022
Insulator Chain, 132 Kv Powerline near Channel Island Powerstation, Northern Terriory, Australia, Jan. 2016
a single phase job from SCE. 1952.Resembles a lot of the subs in the Dakotas taken by ND Line geek. From SCE Collection at hdl.huntington.org.
I was hoping to find some glass along this stretch of railroad, as I had picked some about twenty years prior, but the poles were gone and removed. All I found was this fractured and mold covered Lynchburg 44, still holding onto a piece of wire that carried many a conversation along the L&N, still mounted to a piece of crossarm.
2/27/2022
Nashville, IL
on crossarms. One of the very few remaining examples of this old-style construction on Long Island, NY
Near Afton,MN. Xcel upgraded the insulators (the original insulators were hendrix polymer 35kv pins) back in 2010 I believe....I think this was a cool looking pole because of the angled tie top on the middle phase.
Year Made: 1890's to 1933
Manufacturer: Hemingray Glass Company
Color: teal
Height: 4 inches
Weight: 17.1 ounces
Width: 2 3/4 inches
Style number: 18
CD number: 134
Voltage: Telegraph
Embossing: HEMINGRAY (front) , PATENT / MAY 2, 1893 (rear)
It's been wet here all week but I did a little digging anyway, I must have dug up a few dozen damaged insulators but found a few decent ones.
The diamond exchange has a large bruise so I'm giving it away and that chunk of a dome is purple, too bad it wasn't intact.
The MLOD beehive has no markings, anyone know anything about it?
The white ball is a (1930s?) Christmas tree light bulb, I'm going to add a hook and ribbon and make it into an ornament.
A variety of green tones ranging from pale icy green to deep yellow olive. Top row: CD 164 Lynchburg 38, CD 122 Whitall Tatum No. 2, CD 136 B&O (This is a Hemingray product). Bottom row: CD 145 NEGM, CD 252 No.2 Cable (Canadian)