"Totally Wired" Telephone Poles

New HO Scale "Totally Wired" Telephone Poles being installed on the Rapido Trains Inc. display layout. Visit http://www.rapidotrains.com for more info.

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Howto & Style

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• Model
• Railroad
• trains
• railway
• layout
• scenery
• telephone
• poles
• telegraph
• wires
• HO
• scale
• Rapido
• mainline
• branchline
• rail

[Saugertiesrailfan]

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

[newcadet]

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

[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.

[ACLTony]

They look nice! Definetly a time saver.

[trainmandan05]

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

[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!

[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!!!!

[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.

[modeltrain9500]

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

[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.