Matt Weldon's photos with the keyword: transformer

Packard Park, Fort Wayne While driving around Fort Wayne this winter I discovered one more area that has the old City Light and Power poles that were in an inner city park called Packard Park. With the poles being in a city park it would only have the City Light and Power lines, whereas in the neighborhoods it would of been both City Light and Power (CL&P) and Indiana Michigan Power (I&M). On March 1, 1975 all CL&P lines were leased to I&M for 35 years until on February 28, 2010, I&M would eventually become the exclusive electric service provider for Fort Wayne. In this park there were eight old poles that had ball diamond lighting and one intermediate pole without the lights. All eight poles with the lighting had an old transformer, box cutout, lightning arrester, and the typical glass insulator for the one wire. This shot shows a wide angle shot showing the ball diamond lighting with an old GE transformer, box cutout, and two CD 218 Hemingray-660 glass insulators. This shot shows a close up of the same pole. www.ipernity.com/doc/314471/22620223

Williams County, Ohio A pole with four CD 302 Hemingray glass insulators still in service use in Ohio along highway 20. Last week I shot about 25 more poles with the CD 302s in service use and counted 108 still in use. Most say Ohio on the reverse embossed side along with a few Muncie Type. This is a very rare sight today to see large colored glass pin type power insulators in service use.

A shot of an old City Light and Power, Indiana Michigan Power utility pole in the neighborhood of Northside in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sections of Northside and small sections of Spy Run are the last two neighborhoods in Fort Wayne to have some of the old CL&P/I&M poles still up in service. This is about the oldest looking CL&P/I&M pole I've seen in Fort Wayne. The two glass insulators are CD 272 Whitall Tatum 511As. Before March 1, 1975 the top two crossarms would of been I&M while the bottom two CL&P. After that date, I&M leased from CL&P for 35 years until on February 28, 2010, I&M would eventually become the exclusive electric service provider for Fort Wayne.

822 Clark Ave., Bluffton, Indiana A shot showing a very old pole using three CD 230 Hemingray 512s in service use along Clark Ave. in Bluffton, Indiana. Looks like the insulation is coming off the conductors.

Here is the other side or early morning shot of my previous photo of the two old cast iron Westinghouse transformers. www.ipernity.com/doc/314471/20989245

A shot of an old City Light and Power, Indiana Michigan Power utility pole in the neighborhood of Spy Run in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Small sections of Spy Run and sections of Northside are the last two neighborhoods in Fort Wayne to have some of the old CL&P/I&M poles still up in service. This shot shows an old transformer bank with the two outside ones being very old cast iron Westinghouse transformers. The glass insulator is a CD 272 Whitall Tatum 511A. I waited over two months to get perfect lighting on this shot. Not only was I bless with the nice late evening light but also with nearly a full moon. Before March 1, 1975 the top two crossarms would of been I&M while the bottom one along with the secondary lines with the spool insulators CL&P. After that date, I&M leased from CL&P for 35 years until on February 28, 2010, I&M would eventually become the exclusive electric service provider for Fort Wayne.