Insulator collecting

[Ronayne]

Hello all,

I'm just wondering.

Is there anyone here who collects railway/telegraph insulators?

I have five ceramic insulators (four are bell shaped, three big, one small) and I have four glass insulators (two I'm picking up on Wednesday).

I get them from some abandoned railway lines I know and I buy them and get them during MoW work at Cooma. I also plan on buying some from EBAY.

I also am a pending member of ICON (http://www.insulators.info/icon/).


~ Chris, :wave:

 

[Torpedo423]

I have like 15, not really sure where exactly they came from, but they are railroad insulators, I bought them at a flea marked, most are glass, the rest are ceramic. Mostly green

 

[Ronayne]

My father has just got me twelve ones from the USA, that look like the PRR ones. He also got me a red one and we are bidding on eight more.

Hopefully I manage to get those too.


Is there anyone else who collects telegraph and railway insulators?

 

[gary6204]

my friends dad climbed up a telephone pole on Milwaukee road's west coast path (now the iron horse trail) and retreived 21 of them. one for every boy in my boy scout troop! i have a green insulator cap from 1920-1960. it has some copper wire attached too.

 

[Torpedo423]

my friends dad climbed up a telephone pole on Milwaukee road's west coast path (now the iron horse trail) and retreived 21 of them. one for every boy in my boy scout troop! i have a green insulator cap from 1920-1960. it has some copper wire attached too.

I have a green one dated 1936 that still has copper wire attached

 

[Ronayne]

my friends dad climbed up a telephone pole on Milwaukee road's west coast path (now the iron horse trail) and retreived 21 of them. one for every boy in my boy scout troop! i have a green insulator cap from 1920-1960. it has some copper wire attached too.

Lucky you

 

[Ronayne]

I'll post some photos of my collection when I receive them from the US. :wave: