line poles

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The top , bent angle iron carried the lightning arrestor wire.  There is a
lead stapled down the pole to 'earth' the wire.  The next three brown
insulators were the AC power supply (600VAC?/ 4400VAC?).  Signal, code line,
telegraph, telephone were carried on the lower cross arms.  The two white
insulators were for the telephone line to the dispatcher in the older days.
Train crews could carry a telephone that could be clipped to these.  

Gary Rolih 

Cincinnati

 

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Made it to SW VA this past weekend and coming out of Norton found piles of
removed line poles (with for sale sign by the piece or load if anybody's
interested) [see first picture].  Further North, the poles are still up (see
second picture).  Does anyone know what the lines attached at the various
positions of the pole carried.  Why was that Z bent angle added to the top?
The upper three positions on the pole itself have brown ceramic insulators
with "whiskers" of wire attached, any ideas?

Jim Cochran



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