How many have seen this?
At one time, you may have stopped and asked yourself: Have I ever seen a telegraph insulator? If not, stop by the Hammells’ home in Galloway Township. They have 10,000 of them.
“About 15 to 20 years ago, this railroad out here was discontinued for about five or six years,” said Stanley Hammell. “They just pushed all the poles down and let them lay. So I helped myself.”
A visitor to the Hammells’ yard enters a kind of glass menagerie, with thousands of the small, bell-shaped insulators perched on every platform imaginable, from a storybook well to a tree stump to a laundry line.
But by far the largest platforms are the tops of telegraph poles, sprouting out of the ground like stunted, angled trees — all covered in dozens upon dozens of insulators.
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At one time, you may have stopped and asked yourself: Have I ever seen a telegraph insulator? If not, stop by the Hammells’ home in Galloway Township. They have 10,000 of them.
“About 15 to 20 years ago, this railroad out here was discontinued for about five or six years,” said Stanley Hammell. “They just pushed all the poles down and let them lay. So I helped myself.”
A visitor to the Hammells’ yard enters a kind of glass menagerie, with thousands of the small, bell-shaped insulators perched on every platform imaginable, from a storybook well to a tree stump to a laundry line.
But by far the largest platforms are the tops of telegraph poles, sprouting out of the ground like stunted, angled trees — all covered in dozens upon dozens of insulators.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_74238f50-d449-11e1-a20c-0019bb2963f4.html
