"Totally Wired" Telephone Poles

[444mrjimmy]

dude thats cool so cool and i agree with newcadet they need a bit of sag

[Bemasked]

Very nice! Now if only Rapido will do more Crossbar configurations & other details.. 1,2,3,4 5 & 6 bars. The spacing of bars can would often change too depending on a poles age & RR. 1 foot 6 inches or 1 foot 8 inches in Can. Also pegs were spaced 2/2&1-1/2&2 like shown here or straight as 5-5 or a mix of both as say 2/2&1-5. Or even 2/3-3 & 2. Or this mixed 2&3-1/2 & 2. Add steal wire crossovers on some & green,clear,white,brown or black insulators all mixed. I collect Tele bars & insulators.

[ACLTony]

They look nice! Definetly a time saver.

[dongding2009]

It's too bad that we don't see telephone poles like that along the railways anymore! The railroad companies have just about torn all of them down as they're no longer needed due to everyone now using wireless cellphones and all those cellphone towers all over the place! So long, telephone poles! We will all miss ye!

[trainmandan05]

That's why everyone collects the wire insulators off of them.

[Bemasked]

@dongding2009 The Canadian National Railway still has 85% of their old telegraph poles standing along their tracks & only pay to take them down for adding a track or doing bridge work & that sort of thing. In fact here in Northwestern Ontario Canada the CNR poles look almost exactly like the rapido HO poles here. Much of the line between Winnipeg & Toronto has this 3 bar spaced configuration along with 2's & 1's mixed in. In Sioux Lookout Ontario the poles still have 5 bars on them going east.

[BTCRAIL101FILMS]

lolz, the music has nothing to do with "Totally Wired" Telephone Poles!! Thats what macks this video funny! Anyway, great invention...would help alot once I get a BIGGER layout!!!!

[modeltrain9500]

That track work look great! What type of ballast did you use?

[Trolleymoose]

Neat trick. Do you have to stick your tongue out every time you plant a pole?

[Petemonster62]

JIMBOSKI58; I think 100 feet was a standard spacing length between poles.

[LordoftheKaty]

Where can I find these??

[sokka55]

@LordoftheKaty hey just get the none wired ones and use fishing string

[lone56wolf]

The other side of the track would keep wires out of the way of a shifter 0-5-0

[JIMBOSKI58]

The telephone poles look to close. Does any body out there know how many HO scale feet are between poles??????

[pherretlord]

@JIMBOSKI58 Scale 87' to 100' usually looks about right. Also well inside the prototype lengths too if I'm not incorrect. (If I am I'm sure one of the older train guys will clear it up further.)

[JIMBOSKI58]

@pherretlord I figured out the lenght of feet between poles. I went to google earth, zoomed in at a familiar location, went to tools and measured. Standard lengths may vary from region to region or depending on the power.

[WAYNE1980AA]

the original via rail engine is in this movie, i wonder how do you set up the diaphragms between cars?

[babachewbaba]

I'll be listening to "Obsession" by Animotion while I install mine since I model 1985!

The Chessie'85 in H.O.

[cs512tr]

dont sneeze..

lol

merry christmas

[bartybum]

@cs512tr eww

[newcadet]

Nice telephone poles. Just on a side note would be more realistic if the lines sag just a little in between poles.

[trainzack]

@newcadet well, when telephone poles are brand new, they don't sag.

[newcadet]

@trainzack I understand. they are a nice set

[doddsy2978]

@trainzack

Rubbish! The sag is to allow for expansion and contraction in the metal due to seasonal temperature changes.

[trainzack]

@doddsy2978 I did not know that. I guess ill have to assume that im wrong.

[bannanapancake]

rapido makes some as well...

[milw189]

You can't be serious.....

[nuclearthreat545]

i just bought these!

[jeffwxyz]

I can't believe how many people are saying how good they look. Show me a real world set of lines where the wires go straight horizontally from pole to pole. You won't find an example. Wires have to have a sag to them, otherwise they will break.

[Saugertiesrailfan]

well then you done have to put them so far apart, duhh

[Skurgefaust]

haha exactly

[beeble2003]

@jeffwxyz Yes. Unfortunately, though, whatever is used to represent the wires in these models probably isn't heavy enough to sag realistically, even if the poles were placed closer together.

[ilikepiebearys]

ahh thats cool

[howarth004]

they look great, but just one problem, when you try to clean your track, having to reach over without knocking the wires and posts???

[trainboy99]

Thats why they got cleaning cars. : )

[Zebrails]

Ya gotta be strategic in placing the poles. Old-style superiority east-west bound trains... prototype running, creative or real recreations... but, if you wanna make it easier for track cleaning, then you also wanna make sure there aren't so many trees as well as poles, from the access side when track maintenance is needed. cleaning the rails or re-railing rolling-stock.

Newer era pikes will not have such poles with wires.

Older eras will have cabooses and friction-bearing trucks.

So, There!

[unionpacifictrain]

where did you get those from?

[NDCdancer11]

cool

[HarryPotterObsessed7]

These are wonderful, although I'm not really into your ad in the Great Layouts 2009 issue of Model Railroader.

[Tjsingle14]

these things are awesome

[cappy6921]

DUDE!!! you just saved me a ton of work! cheers and 3 thumbs up,,for those of us that are all thumbs,LOL

[railman62]

Hey thats some Hootin Tarded Music! I like the Muppets. Just watch out for the lines as you go for that derailed car or engine and you take out the wires and the poles go flying everywhere!!!!!!

[DungeonStudio]

Hey, that is a pretty ingenious way of doing it. And the poles and brackets look fantastic as well! The music is a hoot too, though I think 'Totally Wired' by The Fall could have been just as cheeky! LOL

[errolflynn737]

ahhhh...an easy way of doing it...I often wondered. thanks

[flexspinner]

those rok

[ryanthetech]

Listen morons, the music is from Al Hirt and was featured on one of the most beloved episodes of the Muppet Show--the one with the two fuzzy ended tubes with faces that danced on the telephone wires...duh! Totally appropriate, I'd say. Maybe you can rent past episodes of the Muppets at your local video outlet so you won't be so ignorant in the future.

[ferrocarrilSBC]

retarded music ! ! lmao

[iggytretiak]

What wonderfully retarded music!

[WrathofWotan]

Actually there should be a slight bit of sag in the wires, and I wish they would make them in N scale also.

[RailfanAlex]

Very nice! I will be placing an order with my local hobby shop!