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ppardee t1_iugjy4o wrote

Reply to comment by Throwawayiea in Montana photo I bought at a yard sale in 1992. Don’t know when it was taken. by devadog

Is it an electric pole because it has two cross members? How do we tell it's electricity vs telegraph?

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Throwawayiea t1_iugogha wrote

Again, the image is fuzzy. I think the dangling down of the insulators would denote electricity. Old telegraph poles had the insulators normally positioned pointing skywards. However, to be fair, you do, on occasion, have electricity poles that have insulators pointing skywards, too. Again, this is all speculative.

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