| Foreign Insulators - Part 2
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| by Marilyn Albers
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The plight of Ontario Northland Railway
differed in no way from that of other railways. While giving service essential
to the national economy, it was facing ever-increasing competition, much of it
unfair, from air lines, highway trucking and private motor cars. For Ontario
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| Letters to the Editor
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Dear Dora,
Along with my subscription I am enclosing a
drawing (75% actual size) of a piece of glass a friend recently brought to me.
We local collectors have not been able to identify its use.
The glass was found
in 1968 outside a closed Western Union office in southern Illinois. Although it
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| 4KV Distribution Construction
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| by Steve Corfidi
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The following pictures are all of
4KV distribution construction in Baltimore, Maryland, and are just a sampling of
what was perhaps (as crazy as this might sound) the best looking "old
Style" construction anywhere.
Seriously, I've been to many cities in this
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| Telegraphic Miscellanea
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The Pacific Telegraph -- The late Indian depredations upon the
Overland Mail and Telegraph are at an end. On the 7th ult. the savages attacked
the mail station at Julesburg, where the branch lines to Denver connect with the
main line to California, killing and wounding a number. The survivors retreated
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| Foreign Insulators - Part 1
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| by Marilyn Albers
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The Building of a Railroad
As a follow up to August
'83 article we have a rather lengthy but colorful history of the T. & N. 0.
Ry. It is published by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, which is
an agency of the Government of Ontario. The T. & N. 0. Ry. is under the
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