[Fwd: O-B Wood Strain Insulators]

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:
> 
> > My strain insulator is eleven inches in length (total), with five inches
> > of exposed wood. This insulator has never been used and the wood is
> > painted with silver lead paint.
> 
Jim Holland replied:

>         Sounds good - exactly what I wanted to know!
>         Is your insulator from Pgh?

I wish it was... mine came from a glass and pocelain insulator collector
in Michigan who acquired it in purchased lot and didn't know what it
was. She did not know its orgin. These were used extensively in Chicago,
too. I've seen them in Milwaukee as well as in photos taken in Ohio,
Indiana and Philadelphia. In fact, the trolley pole currently fitted to
OERM's operating SN steeple cab has one mounted on the retriever rope!

I plan to share its dimensions with Q-Car or whomever wishes to produce
it in O and HO scale along with the feeder brackets measurements when I
get the drawings done. Ken J.