Here's all my finds (excluding the whole 121 i found earlier this year) from digging along the Toledo and Columbus railroad. Construction on the line was completed in 1877 (at first i thought it was 1892, the maps were misleading) but i have yet to find anything of that age. So far all my finds are older hemingray 121's, 106's (those bright bubbly blue ones) and ice aqua (along with one that appeared a light green) Brookfield CD 121's. I suspect the brookfields were replacements for the hemingrays and my wacko theory is that they were ordered for the railroad sometime between the fire at Muncie and when covington was put back into operation. (it's the wacko theory because these brookfields look to be from the turn of the century and not old enough to be made during the Muncie fire, but it's just a guess ;-) ) All i have found so far is shards so most likely all the whole insulators where reused somewhere else. The line looks to have been scraped in the 1960's, judging by the clear CD 155's i found, wile the other communications line saw service up until the present day or at least sometime before 2000 *when the line was dismantled) The railroad is still active and is used by CSX as a main transportation line with trains zipping by at speeds of 60-70 MPH in rural areas. -Bryan oh, and that slab of glass in the bottom left is a battery jar. |