Jim Terry's photos

New PG&E on the street, Scotia behind the houses. Scotia's system ran all over, including over buildings... PG&E is bringing up the town's system to current standards.

Example of an old Scotia pole - the upper blue colored crossarm is PG&E's line feeding the town; the yellow lower crossarm is Town of Scotia primary. The Town is decommissioning their own utility and having PG&E take over.

Another doomed Scotia pole... the secondary wire running to the newer pole in the foreground was likely powering some of the Town's 400w mercury GE Powr-Bracket luminaires. These are being replaced by 70w HPS PG&E cobra heads.

Existing Scotia utilities being superceded by PG&E.

Example of an old Scotia pole - the upper blue colored crossarm is PG&E's line feeding the town; the yellow lower crossarm is Town of Scotia primary. The Town is decommissioning their own utility and having PG&E take over. I should also note - I noticed the same painted crossarm setup at the Conoco Phillips refinery in Rodeo, CA. You can drive through there on San Pablo Ave. Easy access off I-80 just south of the Carquinez Bridge

These looked like wooden cutouts on this crossarm? They're visible on Google Maps at 2053 W Jefferson Blvd. in Los Angeles... anyone recognize them?

A different view of the pole with what appears to be wooden cutouts in Los Angeles

An overall shot of the pole in Los Angeles that has what looked to me like wooden cutouts... I've never notice anything like it before.

Series Regulators in a central station in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

A pristine oil switch inside the series lighting substation in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

Some of the wiring in the series lighting substation in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

A series regulator in Frederick, MD

some of the many overhead wired series lights in Frederick, MD. (This happens to be a first generation Line Materials Ovalite)

Close up of a series regulator in Frederick, MD

An unusual square regulator on Hutton Drive in Los Angeles (this one is gone now).

A string of 20A series GE Form 109s in Larned, Kansas

A 20A constant current regulator in Larned, Kansas

A neat transformer setup in Pratt, Kansas