Union Pacific Train Company Takes Down 100 year old Railroad Telegraph Power Poles
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2024
- Union Pacific train company takes down 100 year old railroad Telegraph power poles. These obsolete power poles will come down from California to Las Vegas.
I would sure love to pick through all those poles for those insulators!
In the old days yes.., today THEY are too greedy !!!
I would, but I am too far away.
Correction: Some young kids do know what an insulator is. I'm 12 years old, and have 600+. The insulators in the video look like CD 165 Hemingrays, or CD 168 HemingraysLowexs.
Bravo Bravo.., The Heartland is my kind of Place, keep up the good work.
Yes I have them. And collect them.
Some of the ones on the poles are outdated.
Why are kids smarter than me😭
@@SUGARMILLMINECRAFT I'm a stupid kid😎
There used to be telegraph poles (probably put up by Nickel Plate Road) where I Railfan but a few years ago, Norfolk Southern took them down (there are still some up in some places along the line)
Back in 2013 Union Pacific took them down from Sacramento and Bakersfield
Are you gonna try to save the insulators on the poles? Some have high value.
Old phone lines they were probably used for telegraph too.
i would be picking them off like candy i use to have a bunch when i was a little kid
We still had those where I lived in Santa Barbara area in the early 2000s but seems like theyre taking more out.
If you ever seen any old barbwire it goes very high on ebay.
Thanks Dave, I remember how people used to put Barbwire samples together in Box art wall frame thingy, real cool Americana.
Nice video Bravo....sure looks like dry countryside
couple of D-510s at 2:05
I always thought that they were telegraph poles only and didn't carry any power.
You may be correct, I made this video in a Hurry, not enough research ?
Some of them did carry power for the signal equipment.
Bit sad that they are taking them down. Wonderful pieces of history being destroyed.
Where are they gonna take these poles exactly.
And I notice also on the right of the road there’s some old poles that were probably put there in the 30’s by my guess and there still in use thankfully. While the poles next to the tracks are sadly going away
there telegraph poles. not power lines.
Why are they taking down the telegraph poles?😎 Because they are obsolete!😱 Man I would have never known that. I thought the telegraph was coming back in style!😵 a couple of geniuses talking to each other🐓💣
They aren't "power poles", they are telegraph poles, unused for years. There is a difference.
Well I wouldn’t say about unused I looked at the railroad I saw some old street views and some poles seem pretty Advance
Some of those poles did in fact carry power for the signal equipment, at 440V or more. And I've seen pictures of those types of poles with step-down transformers on them. At some point the railroad decided it was easier and cheaper to have the commercial power company supply the power directly to wherever their signal equipment needed power and stopped delivering power on their own poles.
My childhood home has railroad tracks in the backyard and those old poles. Some of the wires hanging on the ground and thankfully no current because I touched them all the time.
Want information on American Railway Association/Communications Section open wire: type in to GOOGLE: "Song of the Open Wire."