| Porcelain Insulator News
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| by Jack H. Tod
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Preferably direct porcelain news items and questions directly to Jack H. Tod,
3427 N. 47th Place, Phoenix, Ariz. 85018. All mail will be answered if reply
stamp is enclosed, and the most newsworthy items and questions of general
interest will be published as space permits.
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| Establishing Trails On Rights-of-Way
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(copied from Sports Afield)
A new publication by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation lists, by state, over 450 railroad rights-of-way abandoned between
1960 and 1970, and criteria for evaluating their recreational potential. BOR
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| Rack Wire Holders
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY N. R. WOODWARD
Author of The Glass Insulator in America and originator of C. D. #'s
(Consolidated Design Numbers)
Paul Greaves writes: I have a few insulators that I have not been able to
identify any place, and I would appreciate any information you might have.
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| Research Division
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Dear Editor,
Here is something I bought the other day. I do not know what it is.
The man I got it from said he screwed it out of a metal sleeve in a mine. He
said that a cable was running through the tube. As you can see, the threads are
on the outside. The inside, or the hole, is threadless. The man did not say what
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| Questions Answered by N. R. Woodward
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| Author of The Glass Insulator in America
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From Jim Decker: I recently acquired two new Hemingrays and have questions
about each of them. The first one is a CD 162 with embossing as follows: F -
HEMINGRAY / PATENTED B - PETTICOAT
The second one is just like a CD 134-1P, except that it is about 1/2"
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