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ND Holmes

May 16, 2017 06:37PM

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In all my years of insulator collecting, I can't say I've ever come across a wire shaped like that actually attached to anything. Plus it's pretty small gauge to be open wire line - usually the tie wire is the same stuff, or at least similar, to the main conductor.

My guess would be banding wires on some sort of maintenance item, possibly from a pallet or crate. Can't think of what sort of railroad maintenance item would produce so many of them, though.

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