Whitman, MA c.1910. Busy, Tall Pole with Four Separate Utilities Upon It.

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted April 17, 2019

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On the top is a short crossarm on a poletop extension that carried a fire alarm circuit. Beneath are three crossarms that I believe were a telephone toll lead. Beneath those are crossarms at a crossover point that supported electric lighting service wires, belonging to the Brockton Edison Company. And lowermost were heavy direct current cables that supplied power for the trolley that operated along this busy roadway in southeast Massachusetts.

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