Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

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Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby freebrickproductions on Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:40 pm

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Re: Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby mjmacpherson on Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:01 pm

freebrickproductions wrote:These were replaced with electronic controllers, but they are still on the poles as of 2008:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=33 ... ,,1,-36.67


I've never seen EM cabinets placed so high on poles!
Is there other cities that do this?
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Re: Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby vaughnsimon on Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:18 pm

mjmacpherson wrote:I've never seen EM cabinets placed so high on poles!
Is there other cities that do this?


No, I've never seen controllers that high.

Are we sure that there are/was controllers in those cabinets? Perhaps the cabinets were used for service disconnects or whatever?
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Re: Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby notMUTCDcompliant on Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:12 am

I'm going to say they are service disconnects: http://goo.gl/maps/xrJ6s
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Re: Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby Crunge98 on Sun Apr 21, 2013 4:06 pm

Railwayj said they used old cabinets for different things such a disconnects and splice boxes.
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Re: Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby EPAC-EPIC-MARC on Sun Apr 21, 2013 4:16 pm

Crunge98 wrote:Railwayj said they used old cabinets for different things such a disconnects and splice boxes.


Is RailwayJ still around?
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Re: Abandoned mechanical controllers in Birmingham, AL

Postby Crunge98 on Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:09 am

EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:
Crunge98 wrote:Railwayj said they used old cabinets for different things such a disconnects and splice boxes.


Is RailwayJ still around?



Yea but inactive here for some reason
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