Oldest poles in Yakima, WA.

By Mike Parker; posted September 25, 2001

View Original (1014 x 676) 24KB

 


One of 3 old poles from the Yakima Interurban Trolley lines, put in service ca. 1907 and still standing. On the crossarm are scarce U-441C porcelains and the side bracket phone line has some U-241A Johns Manville porcelains. On the next pole, I was able to pop out a U-441C by pushing the wooden pin up through a split crossarm with my 40 ft. telescoping hot stick. It fell into a nice soft bed of bark dust around the pole base. I thank the person who provided that nice soft cushion for my insulator to fall in!

5971290