Telegraph Poles

[lionwing]

I have recently purchased some Modelscene Telegraph Pole to include on my layout.

They are moulded in a deep brown plastic and to a point look quite natural and I'm not too sure that painting them would enhance them a great deal.

Any thoughts?

Also - while they are great looking Telegraph Poles;



I'd prefer something a little more provincial looking but Google hasn't really helped in this !

[scotsoft]

Modelscene also do these ones, but I don't quite get what you mean by provincial 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PECO-MODELSCENE-5182-TELEGRAPH-POLES-8-off-N-GAUGE-BRAND-NEW-SEALED-/151054392177?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item232b8b1b71

Ratio, Kestrel and Model Power plus others all do telegraph poles 

cheers John.

[lionwing]

Thank you for the reply.

I think by provincial I mean less capacity to carry lots of wires.

Just perhaps suited to holding four wires or so.

The link you sent looks a little more suited.

[scotsoft]

If you bought some of the ones in the link I gave, you could cut the horizontals off and glue them to cocktail sticks.
So for a pack of 8 poles you would end up with 32 poles each carrying 4 wires 

cheers John.

[trainsdownunder]

Have you had a look at thes.

I have some on order and will post pics when they arrive. http://www.hlj.com/product/TMT22153

[Tom@Crewe]

On average what is the distance between the poles?

[lionwing]

Thanks for the link.  They look excellent.

I think the distance between poles varies for all sorts of reasons.  I'd take a guess at 100/150 ft ish?

[CarriageShed]

On average what is the distance between the poles?

There has been a discussion on a 'rival' forum about the distancing - I managed to find with a quick Google search. Hopefully it should help:
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/24199-how-far-between-telegraph-poles/

[Newportnobby]

On average what is the distance between the poles?

Half of the circumference of the earth??

[CarriageShed]

On average what is the distance between the poles?

Half of the circumference of the earth??

[H]

Rightly or wrongly I spread each of my telegraph poles two pole lengths apart on my layout and they look pretty good.....

So they're poles apart . . . . . .

H.

[Newportnobby]

Rightly or wrongly I spread each of my telegraph poles two pole lengths apart on my layout and they look pretty good.....

So they're poles apart . . . . . .

H.

Or Mr & Mrs Stanislawski getting a divorce

[EtchedPixels]

On average what is the distance between the poles?

Half of the circumference of the earth??

No because the earth isn't a sphere and the circumference of the earth is traditionally considered to be along the equator. (It's not a constant anyway of course!)

[Newportnobby]

On average what is the distance between the poles?

Half of the circumference of the earth??

No because the earth isn't a sphere and the circumference of the earth is traditionally considered to be along the equator. (It's not a constant anyway of course!)

Thank goodness. I thought for one moment you believed I was being serious, Alan

[JKModeller]

Hi lionwing,

Not sure whether it's too late but I used these telegraph poles on one of my layouts. The crossarms are easy to cut to whatever size you want them. I would recommend shortening the height of the pole slightly to make it look more realistic.

To add further detail, you could paint the insulators on the crossarms. The common colors of them were white, brown and black.

If you have a mainline section, you could cut the crossarms to have six total insulators on the top arm and four total on the rest. In this arrangement is was common for the extra two outer insulators on the top arm to be red in color, this indicated a circuit which was a higher voltage to the rest.

For even more detail (if you want) you could add guy wires to the poles. These went down at an angle of about 45° depending on their location. They were mainly used on terminal poles and poles which changed the line's direction. I've started doing this with thin metal wire and it works quite well, despite being fiddly at time.

You could also add wires using fine black thread, but I would only do that if you have a small amount of insulators. But don't add wires if they are in front of the tracks as they may obstruct the tracks if a locomotive or carriage derails.

Hope some of this helps.

JKModeller  (Jake)