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| A finished pole at the Northfield Falls crossing. |
Last week I worked on a few smaller details for the WRD that can be done in an afternoon. It was a rainy day and I was getting the day off from chores. I had built some BarMills telephone or ROW poles in O and HO scale a few years ago. Don't go looking at their web site for them, they were a free handout kit at a past Fine Scale Model Expo. Peter Mumby and I built mine awhile ago. I liked how they looked so I decided to copy them for other areas of the layout I am working on. I only built 8 and it looks like a second afternoon will be required sometime soon...George Dutka
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| My poles are made by cutting a skewer in half and using the cross bracing cut out as a jig included with the BarMills poles. Scrap stripwood is used. |
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| The poles are painted with Hunterline stain then Floquil grime. Some PanPastel highlights are also used. For the insulators I cut the nibs that hold Tichy parts on the spurs. These are painted gloss green and glued on the poles. |
Too bad that they aren't commercially available. They look great... and much more realistic than styrene ones.
ReplyDeleteYes the are great looking. I was using Atlas ones and these are a real improvement...George
DeleteHi George. Very timely, I need to make some and these look great. I notice in your Blog List that you have an out dated listing for Trevor Marshall's S Scale modeling blog. Here is his new link https://themodelrailwaydotshow.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteThanks Ken will change it today...George
DeleteAren't these utility poles, though? The single crossarm with two insulators makes me think that, with a single insulator at the top of the pole, they're meant to carry three-phase power along rural roads.
ReplyDeleteI now have only one insulator on each side...along the ROW they are telegraph lines. Have to look closer at photos I guess to see the amount of lines on branchlines...thanks for the insight John...George
ReplyDeleteHere's a stock image of a rural power pole. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS806US806&sxsrf=ALeKk03oUS7pDAI0A95GPuaRzOblvPFalQ:1590427134173&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=rural+utility+poles&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi--f3iws_pAhUGCs0KHX6rCLgQsAR6BAgCEAE&biw=1920&bih=888#imgrc=x8gPKeU5p3CLqM
DeleteThanks for the link John...George
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