This outrigging belongs to the previously pictured railroad bridge between Harper’s Ferry and MD. I am a fan of the picutre becasue it shows the masss of wires that used to be needed for communication across the river at key points. I’m also interested becasue there are no more insulators on that post. Typically those little posts would all have a glass insulator sitting on top of them. The wires would then wrap around the insulator, preventing their contact with each other and with the support structure. You see a lot of these insulators for sale in antique shops and other places. So when I see this I have to wonder if some collector made his way out there to pluck the insulators off of each of those posts so that they could earn themselves a dollar or two a piece.
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