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Photo Gallery: Busy Utility Poles on Jericho Tpke Photo Gallery: Fixtures |
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A pair of busy utility poles on
Jericho Tpke, in Floral Park, NY. Within NYC, it's common to
think of these poles as "telephone poles", as many
within the city limits carry only phone lines, the electric being
underground. Most city utes have no mast arms atop them. To call
these workhorses telephone poles, would be a great insult. One holds a rare first generation Westinghouse Silverliner mercury fixture, which I've dubbed "Cheerfuls", due to their friendly, happy visage. The other holds the stupid looking TB-327. These are a couple of blocks into Nassau County. Within NYC, such old Silverliners are nearly extinct. The standard eliptical mastarms are de riguer for utility pole streetlights in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. They are rarely seen within NYC, which prefers to use much uglier tubular arms, bracketed at the pole end with ugly and chintzy looking fin-like brackets, as the standard length ute-pole mast. The normal eliptical arms, such as these two, found within NYC on ute poles, are usually clustered around the service roads of latter day expressways, such as the Clearview, Whitestone, West Shore and Nassau Expressways. Both these overworked utes bear three huge transformers and multiple line connections, yet only the Silverliner's pole has double mastarms supporting it's load. |