c.1912 Ice Storm Midwest Western Union Telegraph RR

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted February 27, 2007
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Likely around Ohio, Indiana, IL or in that neck of the woods. At any rate you can see how ice storms REALLY raised havoc upon open-wire here in the East! No wonder why some open-wire still is in service within more "tranquil" portions of the United States :-) And put underground or within paired cable where Mother Nature's havoc like this was more prominent ;-(

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