During the sweet golden hour, an eastbound autorack train NS 244 pass by a long abandoned pole line east of Wawaka, Indiana on the NS Chicago Line. A lone insulator is still attached to the conductor after the pole fell many years ago.
Photos showing the railroad pole lines. The pole line used four basic electrical circuits - telegraph, telephone, signaling, and power. Modern technologies of fiber optics, microwave, radio, satellite, and computers have been replacing the pole lines.