This was along a busy east-west route here in Massachusetts. Judging from the insulators found along this line in the early 1990s, it appears it was rebuilt around 1920. New poles and hard-drawn copper wire replaced all of the old plant. The only things that appeared to have been reused were some of the crossarm braces, perhaps some steel pins with wood cobs and CD 145 insulators (B-beehives). A few miles down from where this photo was taken a six-pin crossarm that had two holes in it for its diagional lag-mounting screws was located rotting away in the brush. No insulators but apparently it stayed virtually untouched for 70-or-so years. Through my many years of collecting, hiking RR right-of-ways for hundreds of miles, digging dumps, etc., I have run across very, very few old crossarms with this method of mounting arrangement in any kind of condition. No doubt New England's seasons and rather moist climate rotted most of the discarded ones long before I was born.

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