This beefy cresoted 55-foot pole was installed around 1960 and had six angle-mounted Lapp line posts in brown mounted upon it. They secured 477 alunimum cable at 13.8 kv. A car hit it HARD today and the pole fell as shown, with 13.8 kv primaries falling upon a 4kv line in the background at the intersection you see. Nevertheless there was quite an outage here in Abington, MA on this hot humid day! The entire town centre was blocked off owing to wires all over the place. Since I have been an electric utility employee for a long time, I was granted access to the secured area. And best of all, the supervisor in charge of operations said I could take any junk laying around... So I did! I now proudly have six Lapp four-tier brown line posts from this fallen pole. Each has the LAPP underglaze marking with their L-within-I logo (within an oblong oval) signature. Included are their heavy-steel angle pin crossarm mounts. I know all of this stuff isn't worth much on our collectors' market. But it's memory-lane stuff to me with a sudden-impact, unexpected find....

I will show my loot here within the next day or two. I've always remembered this pole ever-since-who-knows-when and I have looked up at this pole at least a million times. It never was anything really special, but now it is (or was). Owing to this unfortunate accident I now own some of the stuff atop it along with all four of the weathered wood crossarm braces too...which will find respectful places within my outdoor museum ;-) Please refer to [id=378524042] for another view.

PS... Ironically, the traffic lights remained in service in the background because there was a totally different circuit that served them, terminating just to the left.