Bigger and Prettier

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", February 1990, page 4

Having noted the pictures at the end of Don Fiene's "Soviet Insulator Report, 1989" in the November, 1989 issue of Crown Jewels, I enclose a picture of a "bushing" type insulator. It is from a relay station by Boulder Dam. This is one of 12 and there are not more. It measures 55" high, 18" wide at the top, and 30" wide at the bottom. The insulator weighs more that 600 pounds. It was made by Westinghouse in 1935.

Harry Lee, Hesperia, California