The above is across town from here and as a kid I enjoyed hiking along the railroad's right-of-way looking for insulators. That was during the mid-1960s and by then this telegraph line had been downgraded to a single crossarm route supporting six wires. Passenger service had been discontinued along this RR stretch around 1958 with only occasional freight cars passing by in later years. During 1965-1966 this Western Union line was dismantled except for about a dozen poles on each side of a few roadway crossings which supported signal wires for the crossing gates. Some of the old telegraph crossarms were remained on the poles by 1997 when a mass transit route was completed. I was welcome to anything I wanted off the downed poles during construction, such as pins, crossarms, braces and other hardware that have come in handy for my outdoor displays. There weren't many pintype insulators left (most were rubber or plastic). However, at one of the busy crossings I found three or four Hemingray-109 spools complete with their brackets on the ground.

The old station seen here was constructed of granite during 1894. Since around 1990 it has been a restaurant with much of its originality retained inside; the exterior appears much the same as it does in this 1938 photo.