| | Searching the A.T.&.T. Northern Transcontinental Toll Lead
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| | by Mark Heitman
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The Stampede Pass Trips from 1978 to 1983
Part B
(We pick up the story where we left off in the June, 1992 issue, p. 21)
The first time I went to Cabin Creek a house had four whole but stress
cracked California purple 208's in the window. BINGO! I must be close to the
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| | Radio Relay Insulators In England
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| | by Stewart Firth
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Although my main field of interest is collecting railway telegraph
insulators, I recently came across some unusual and undocumented non-railway
types which are worth recording before the details are lost forever.
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I first noticed three distinct new types in the small Yorkshire market town
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| | Marvin Collins Was....
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Quaking In His Boots
The most recent quakes centered near Petrolia and Ferndale, California let
loose with 6.9, 6.2 and 6.5 shakes. The last one must have given us at least 12
hard one inch shakes in rapid successions, the worst persistent shaking in
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| | 1904 General Electric Catalog Show ST AR and KNOWLES Insulators
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Dario Dimare of Framingham, Massachusetts found this General Electric catalog
showing the Star and Knowles insulators and sent the catalog to Elton Gish for
photographing. Elton sent the photo on for publication. Later G.E. catalogs
showed the Star and Knowles insulator with much smaller photos, but the 1904
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| | The "Spaceman" Rides Again!
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| | by Dean Hemphill, NIA #4759
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The April, 1992 issue of "Crown Jewels of the Wire" contained an
article about my unusual "spaceman" insulator. When I wrote that
article, I had virtually no information about the piece. Since then, I've
learned more about it, and I'd like to continue the story. I tend to ramble a
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish
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The Porcelain Insulator News article in the November, 1991 issue of Crown
Jewels described problems with the insulators on the Niagara, Lockport &
Ontario power line. That line, originally constructed with the large, and
undiscovered M-3890's, prompted interest from many of you. As it turned out, Ken
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