This is a Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) station somewhere in Ohio about 1910 during the midst of a pretty nasty ice storm. Check out how that ice is rapidly accumulating on each one of the individual wires. And how they are really beginning to sag! Yikes!!! This tremendous weight undoubtedly put a great strain on the crossarms, pins, poles... and of course the insulators! So...here's a sample of a real photo of what the insulators we covet today undoubtedly went through to survive through the many decades of service... finally making their way into our collections ;-)