Billerica, MA 1903. Close View of Electric Utility Pole with RR Comms Beneath

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted May 14, 2020

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It is clearly seen that the electric utility serving this area was the Lowell Electric Light Corporation, from the black-on-white crossarm stenciling. Beneath are a pair of trolley telephone dispatch circuits (on the left with neatly transposed wires) and a heavy cable on the right supported by what looks like a CD 145 beehive insulator of the same crossarm. The latter probably provided power to this stretch of trolley line.

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