line poles

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My father always called the insulators the crown jewels of America.
Kurt Kramke 


On 07/31/13, NW Mailing List wrote:




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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Subject: line poles




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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