Power Lines' articles

I found some neat stuff on Southern Co.'s grid the other day, including what could be the very last 4160 V distribution on Georgia Power's system: www.flickr.com/photos/connecticut_power_lines/33183986466/in/dateposted I also photographed some interesting (and very old) transmission towers on a 46 kV line from Alabama Power: www.flickr.com/photos/connecticut_power_lines/32409629214/in/dateposted More pictures can be found on my FLICKR photostream: www.flickr.com/photos_user.g…

I just uploaded a new batch of pictures to my FLICKR page. This batch consists of the rest of my Duqense Light Co. and West Penn Power photos (ones I haven't published before), and can be viewed here: www.flickr.com/photos/connecticut_power_lines Enjoy!

This might be interesting: www.ipernity.com/help/faq/album#360

The end of IPERNITY may be near - I fear the time has come for us to search for a new site to host our photos. www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4642052 Anyone have any ideas? Should we dust off our old FLICKR accounts?

November 2016 will go down in the record books as my top month of uploads! A whopping 407 pictures have been taken and uploaded to my photo stream over the course of this month. This handily beats my prior record month of November 2012, when 345 pictures were uploaded. That record stood for four years! There is no doubt that this month's record number of photos is owed to the beautiful old power line construction in the Pittsburgh, PA area. Interesting poles abound there, and I would hig…

UPDATE - The safari is now finished and I will be uploading its photos over the next couple weeks. An opportunity has arisen for me to take a trip to Pittsburgh to help out some friends in a move in the middle of November. This means a safari will be on the way! Priority number 1 will be to get photos of Duquesne Light's wooden 'birdhouse' cutouts. Please feel free to post any Google Street View links to poles that you would like me to photograph. OFFICIAL LIST…

Check out my new photos from Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh! Duquesne Light's got some REAL oldies on its grid. Photos of its lines will be coming in over the coming days.

Just reached a big milestone with my latest upload batch! Thanks to all for enjoying the photos I have posted over the years. If you'd like a look back at some older pictures, feel free to visit my 'Favorites' file, which I will be updating over the next couple months: www.ipernity.com/doc/connecticut_power_lines/favorites/self Looking into the future, my next big safari destination will be Pittsburgh, PA. I will be there later this week and plan to extensively photograph Duquesne Light'…

UPDATE - 11/14/2016 All photo descriptions have been added. UPDATE - 11/12/2016 Titles and tags have been added to the latest batch of photos now, and they have all been sorted into albums. Descriptions will be coming tomorrow! I will be uploading some rather large batches of pictures I took in New Mexico before I leave for Pittsburgh next week. Due to the sheer amount of photos, it may take me a little while to add descriptions to them all.

Greetings fellow linegeeks, I will be travelling to Santa Fe, New Mexico next week. I'll have my camera with me, so some line pics will be in order. If there are any specific poles, lines, and/or subs anybody would like me to photograph, feel free to send me any relevant addresses or Google Street View links. After this trip, the big Pittsburgh Safari will be next on the agenda. (See thread here: www.ipernity.com/blog/connecticut_power_lines/4636694)

Just uploaded some pictures I took this morning of a 4.8kV single-phase distribution line on East Church Street in Plymouth, CT. Pictures of the stepdown transformer that feeds this line are included. Enjoy!

We have now reached the 2,000 photo milestone in the Powerline Graveyard group. This means that together, we have preserved over 2,000 pictures of poles that no longer exist. This is quite a major accomplishment! I extend thanks to all who have helped in this massive endeavor, and here's to 2,000 more!

With nearly 9,000 photos and over 70 albums, I have been working over the past few months to organize and tag each picture to make searching easier. With that finished, I have moved on to organizing my albums. They are now all alphabetized in their corresponding folders: www.ipernity.com/doc/connecticut_power_lines/album

I am pleased to announce that I have added a new keyword in my photos - this time for transformers with blue bushings! So far, I have a total of 22 pictures of blue-bushing transformers. They can be viewed here: www.ipernity.com/tag/connecticut_power_lines/keyword/4747768?with=20092249 Enjoy!

Just got back home from a safari in Newark and Paterson, NJ. Found tons of amber glass up in the air, along with a couple neat old subs and an early three-piece multipart insulator in the air. Pictures will be coming soon!

I've got plans to head over to Newark, NJ on Monday, 5 September, with extra time allocated for a line safari! Here are some poles I plan to visit: NEWARK: N 5 Street/2 Avenue - Old three-phase transformer bank with early (circa 1920) Westinghouse transformers:http://goo.gl/xhxuyI 896 Bergen Street: Three-phase bank of cast iron transformers: goo.gl/LRO56A 208 Johnson Avenue: 4-on-the-arm glass insulators: goo.gl/AqvmQ2 274 West Bigelow Street: Intersection between aerial ca…

We need a linegeek to visit Pittsburgh! Here is another pole with wooden birdhouse cutouts in use. It has two: goo.gl/llG59R goo.gl/L8FJke

Here's a Google Street View link to an old substation that I have driven by numerous times over the years: goo.gl/PaMTt6 This substation features a sizeable indoor portion, as well as some interesting outdoor features. There also look to be some potentially interesting 69kV multipart pin insulators, some with four skirts: goo.gl/Nv2joE Think I should stop by this sub with my camera on my next drive?