Depot pole gets 3 cross arms-2

By Mike Parker; posted September 12, 2005

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The insulators were a combined effort of myself and fellow collector Nathan Lamkey of Salem OR. They are mostly good color specimens that we can enjoy looking at in the air, but can't see minor chips and cracks etc. Starting top left, there are 3 purple Whitall Tatum CD 154, a light lavender of the same and a blue of the same. Top right has a clear Hemingray 42, a very green Lynchburg 42, an odd dark clear WT CD 155 and an aqua Hemi 42 with some train smoke, from the original S.P line. The lower arms have several 7 mold Hemi 40's green with amber. Also some olive star beehives and signals, two purple California CD 161 signals and a very green beehive or 2. We used the best 3 arms we had on the property and you might notice the 2 lower arms have a different pin spacing. They are former Bell System arms and have a wider space near the pole than the railroad style, to allow climbing space. That's right, we didn't know that before either! Lesson learned.

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