115 KV twin circuit tower with some great looking glass. These run right through the mall and Home Depot parking lots. Getting closer.

115 KV twin circuit tower with some great looking glass. These run right through the mall and Home Depot parking lots.

Tremendous Yellow Green Suspensions

Nice colored early VICTOR suspension insulator marked as shown in . It is in good shape with a small skirt flake, tiny flash over mark, and rust on the cap. These were most likely made in the early teens and have very ...

Here is the marking on this early suspension - VICTOR and R=OO (Infinity) -- great early mottled glaze. See for the suspension itself.

Near Copco lake on the Oregon-California border, there is a single-wire line that ran from the power plant up over the rim along the flume. It was supported in many places with a single suspension insulator. Here is one ...

Near Copco lake on the Oregon-California border, there is a single-wire line that ran from the power plant up over the rim along the flume. It was supported in many places with a single suspension insulator.

This takes the term a little too far. Don't know when or where this photo came from

Here is a pair of suspensions I recently came across. Does anybody recognize them? Kind of a Robin's Egg Blue, smudged underglaze ...

When I found the negative, I thought it was a suspension insulator. After scanning it, I realize it was a wall tube used to pass high voltage power cable through a building wall. The photograph was taken on 7-9-1932 at ...

This is a close-up view of the lattice tower suspension insulators pictured here . The lime green color is like the McLaughlin lime greens-- very nice.

here are 2 of 3, odd Pittsburg suspensions I recently found with a friend near my home in western Washington State. These small suspension ...

The suspensions ...

... horn at the bottom of a string of suspensions. I've seen and photographed one or two still in use in Wisconsin but have only recently come across ...

Suspensions in service on the Feather River in Northern California. I'm not a "mud" man, so I don't ...

This purple suspension caught my eye, and a kind gent pointed out the Coors baby bottle as well...

A double dead end pole at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum in Brooks, OR. The insulators are 1910 era Victor M-2430 multiparts. The rings on the crossarm bolts will have double Hewlett 7.5 in. suspension insulators ...

The first set of D.E. 7 1/2" Suspensions unpinned and removed ...

... 12 KV pole with 10" green glass suspensions ...

... 12 KV pole with 10" green glass suspensions ...

... corner pole with 10" green glass suspensions ...

... corner pole with 10" green glass suspensions. These are clevis rather than ball and socket type ...

... at the pump house with 7 1/2" suspensions ...

Close-up of a 4KV dead end / slack span pole with the 7 1/2" suspension insulators, an interesting thimble type dead-end for the #4 Al wire.

... / slack span pole with the 7 1/2" suspensions ...