November 25, 2009 07:54PM
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Dave....
Somewhere I seem to have read that the Western Union worked that pole line for some period of time after the RR tracks were torn up.
Don't know how I'd prove that now though.
Whatever records of pole lines that once existed were probably trashed long ago by the Western Union...
The Western Union sold most of the pole lines in place to the various railroads they paralleled for a dollar ($1) just to get rid of them when they got out of the landline business in the 1950's and 1960's.
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