Re: Alpine Tunnel Glass

Posted by South Park on Oct 10, 2017; 6:28am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Alpine-Tunnel-Glass-tp9540p9681.html

The photo dates to 1884 of the insulator at the mouth of the snowshed.
Is anything known about who was behind the various contracts ???

What I do know is that in a dozen trips over 30 years, I have scoured
most of the South Park mainline ROW from Pine Grove to Gunnison
looking for evidence of what insulators were used.  Remarkably, the
1871 Patent "bullet" as shown above was bought in a vary large quantity
and used over the entire distance on the mainline on the original construction.
Never found a single CD 126 "blobtop" anywhere on the line, but they
were all over the D&RG system.  WU quit using the 126 as their "standard"
in 1884, adopting the familiar "beehive" shaped CD 145, and while the
126 did not die off, it's purchase and use did drop off dramatically after
1884.

  I don't know ....  probably never know the answer.  Just looking at this
weird bit of evidence makes me wonder what the backstory was ....