My wife and kids.........

[Brutalfly]

Continue to feed the obsession!
For Father's Day my wife and kids added to the ever growing collection.
I was pretty shocked but my wife assured me that she got some amazing deals on these.

 

[UnderMiner]

Shooting at insulators, now there's an idea

 

[shotdwn]

The insulators are nice but I really like the Reddy Kilowatt sign. Congratulations on some nice gifts.

 

[Brutalfly]

The insulators are nice but I really like the Reddy Kilowatt sign. Congratulations on some nice gifts.

The Reddy Kilowatt sign is pretty neat. I am a big fan of the Reddy Kilowatt stuff.

 

[Len]

"Reddy for President!" ...Someone will have to do some major PR work but he couldn't be any worse than the last two occupiers of the Oval Office. Reddy is electrifying and shocking at the same time. I heard he's gone solar ...

 

[EvansBottles]

It looks to me that the sign is a repro. There are lots of different sign being reproduced.

 

[dario]

Continue to feed the obsession!
For Father's Day my wife and kids added to the ever growing collection.
I was pretty shocked but my wife assured me that she got some amazing deals on these.
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VERY nice! Thanks for sharing.

 

[prevnar]

So cool! Great family!!

 

[willong]

Shooting at insulators, now there's an idea

A regrettably common idea among those inclined to vandalism!

I acquired some rural land in Montana which is bordered by an old, abandoned railroad grade. From the nearest paved road (not counting an interstate highway across the river), walking along that grade for three miles into and across my property last year, I passed numerous poles with most of the crossbars still attached. Though broken in places and sagged to the ground, several strands of wire still ran the course. However, I could not spot a single, fully-intact glass insulator the entire distance!

Here's just one example (realtor's photo from the listing; the taller poles in background are modern power line):

Looking down from the hill in the left-background of the previous view, you can see both the modern power line and the route of old telephone poles. The pole from previous photo is near center of photo below. Portion of RR grade visible in the photograph is less than a fifth of the distance that I walked without spotting a single whole insulator on the old line!

 

[jc_john1]

A regrettably common idea among those inclined to vandalism!

I acquired some rural land in Montana which is bordered by an old, abandoned railroad grade. From the nearest paved road (not counting an interstate highway across the river), walking along that grade for three miles into and across my property last year, I passed numerous poles with most of the crossbars still attached. Though broken in places and sagged to the ground, several strands of wire still ran the course. However, I could not spot a single, fully-intact glass insulator the entire distance!

Here's just one example (realtor's photo from the listing; the taller poles in background are modern power line):
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Looking down from the hill in the left-background of the previous view, you can see both the modern power line and the route of old telephone poles. The pole from previous photo is near center of photo below. Portion of RR grade visible in the photograph is less than a fifth of the distance that I walked without spotting a single whole insulator on the old line!
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This amazingly is not the same in Alaska. I recently visited and took a couple of train rides and was shocked to see old lines with many insulators still intact. While the wire was removed, no one seemed interested in the several insulators left behind. Wish I could have stopped the train and grabbed some.