The main portion of the dump was a solid hill of stone, German furnace brick, and early porcelain. Insulators found in the dump include: M-3250 Swaninigan in yellow and drippy yellow glazes used on Westinghouse switch assemblies. M-2421 Thomas in drippy red glazes. M-3471 Thomas in Dark Brown from the 50kV transmission lines. Early white wall tubes/transformer bushings. These were found mounted in wood mounts with stone racks. This might be part of the eletric arc process. OB brown transformer bushings. Special white firebrick from Germany from the furances to withstand thousands of degrees. There was very interesting limestone brick from the absorbsion tower. Imported from Germany, the brick has minerals that absorb the nitrogen (or something like that) creating Nitrates. Most of the birck had a stained orange coloring from the absorbsion!!! Stone racking from seperators for the electric arc. There was also plenty of odd Victor porcelain and even a 4 1/3 diameter cleat! |