Stan Severi knows how to display suspensions ...

Same line, different stuff. My first suspensions, Thomas 1956s. I really like the glaze color on the ones on the left. The 2 Lapp 35s in the back I ...

hile I was in the middle of the race, I noticed this old railroad bridge type thing. I thought it was pretty cool, and I snapped a picture. By the way, the car is a Ford Cobra. ( to see some suspension insulators in ...

Last night, I was playing Need for Speed II, and when I was in the middle of a race, I noticed a couple power lines with suspension insulators. I lo9st the race trying to take this picture, Oh well! By the way, nice ...

Talked to the guru of JD, Mr. Burns and he said that it's pretty hard to find these older units. I looked through about a hundred of the common ones with the manufacturer date and only found two of these. It's even more ...

Check out this setup. The dead end and suspension chains hang from a smaller chain of 3 discs. I've seen this done in several places on this line but not on any other lines.

... spool, next to that is a string of suspensions, next to that is another brown spool, next is another johnny ball, then another type of tower ...

... saw more downed poles in the woods with suspensions on them ...

A bunch of Pyrex carnival suspensions still in use. These really are as dark as they look. A real diehard collector would have this whole ...

Another view of the East side tower. How many power towers constructed like this are left in this world? Lattice braced girders with rod and turnbuckle supports and get a load of that ladder! I'm scared just looking at ...

The West tower taken from the 3rd floor of the building. Note the way they strung vertical lead wires on suspension insulators to make the line taps. Kent Anderson photo

Pacific Power has been busy replacing this old river crossing power line the last few months. The crossing is in Portland, Oregon. This view is looking east across the Willamette (will-lamm-et) River near downtown ...

Here are two other early suspensions identicle in design to the one I posted last night. They are at the same place were the other was ...

I found this piece at a circa 1913 substation. The metal cap is somewhat primative and the porcelain is quite thin. Unsure about manufacturer and possible value (Value is not really imperative) Any Ideas?

I found this piece at a circa 1913 substation. The metal cap is somewhat primative and the porcelain is quite thin. Unsure about manufacturer and possible value (Value is not really imperative) Any Ideas?

I found this piece at a circa 1913 substation. The metal cap is somewhat primative and the porcelain is quite thin. Unsure about manufacturer and possible value (Value is not really imperative) Any Ideas?

The first string of relocated suspensions, small Hewletts ...

I found these LOCKE 1-31 suspensions last fall in an old fallen down shed. They are from a mine in "Somewhere " PA. This is ...

third view

another view

GE patented suspension Street light hung mid span in GE 1940 catalogue- based on a French patent..

JD's, JD's, JD's as in Jeffery-DeWitt! Nice unusual color on that lower blue suspension!

With the help of a good friend from the local power company, I was able to acquire the needed hardware to make a very short dual string suspension set up. The hardware including the corona ring came from an older 345kV ...

Here is another view showing the top surface of one. These do not appear to have been intended for use hanging vertically, as the top depression would have filled with water. Elton Gish also has a picture of one of ...

This is a picture of what the suspensions look like. As far as I have been able to determine, this one line is the only place they were used ...