Fisher Electric Railway System

Reprinted from "INSULATORS - Crown Jewels of the Wire", July 1973, page 2

ABOUT THE COVER

Our thanks to Reb Bennett and Louie Pellegrini, Jr. for the cover picture this month. It and the pictures on this page show two unembossed variants of the Fisher Electric Railway System built by Detroit Electrical Works owned by them. Both specimens are aqua and one has the original mounting bracket. Only three are now thought to exist, and the one with the mounting bracket is unique. The insulators were dug in San Jose, California, where the Fisher Electric Railway System operated along 7 miles of track from September 1888 to early 1889. A similar system operated in Detroit, Michigan for a somewhat longer period of time.