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Picking Up Some History

Authored by: masodo on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 10:20 am UTC

Thanks for the comment Dale.

They chopped down the telegraph poles only a couple of months ago from the railway behind my house. I recovered several modern plastic insulators but was glad to get some of the glass ones. I was able to talk the removal crew into giving me 100+ feet of the copper clad, insulated steel telegraph wire. This should make an outstanding shortwave longwire antenna. [smiley::D]

I think the slice of track likely came from an in-service rail replacement. Cut to fit onsite. I already have a 10" long piece of track that I use for an anvil I am thinking I might just try to polish this one into a unique paperweight or combine with the glass insulators into an accent lamp of some sort.

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