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I have also had trouble getting the pics- though some "casino" ad popped up :-(

Hi Guys,

I'm sorry that the pictures are off-line at the moment. The Hutch family is in the middle of a move to England from Denver and I'm without an ISP at the moment to host them. Comcast was rather smart in cutting me off - 8 am on the final day.

As soon as I get a new service provider, I will upload the pictures and edit the post to reflect the new address. Hopefully within 3 weeks when the furniture - including the computers - arrives. Last seen heading down the road in a 40' container in the general direction of New York.

Glad to see that the post is still generating interest. When I'm back on line properly I will present my next electrical tavelogue - to Equatorial Guinea in darkest central Africa. Not as comprehensive as Siberia but then there was a lot less electricity!

Ian,

You can e-mail them to one of us mods and we'll upload them onto ECN's server if you wish.

Yeah,
That shouldn't be much of a problem.

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Ian,
If you want to send them to my email address above, I'd be more than happy to upload the lot of them for you.
Not that it's like a competition here, but I have a 100MB mailbox and an ADSL connection.

Thanks Mike, please check you PM.

Mike,- a 100MB mailbox!!!!!! JHC, and I've been jpeg-ing and depixelerisating the living daylights out of my pics so as not to overload you!!
I'm thinking of uprating to 8 MB on ADSL, only another 5 Euros a month and free telephone calls.

Alan

Sorry Alan,
That should read 10MB.
Time to clean the keyboard out again.

Ian,
Only thing I can say about the pictures of them pylons is, I'm glad I don't do linework in Siberia.
Sure the pylon in the 4th picture may be solid timber, but, how on earth do you get anywhere near the outer conductors/insulators?.
Also, with the 5th picture, I don't seem to recall seeing any fuses at all on that structure.
I realise that the wires leading down from the right side of the pole towards the building could in fact be telephone wires.
Is it me or are them wires on the top cross-arm coming in from the right, actually all twisted together mid-span, or is it just a parallax effect?.
It's also rather interesting to compare the difference in the amount of guarding around a structure like this.
Over here, if you built something like that to carry Lines on, it would be teeming with kids, thinking it was some sort of a wooden Jungle-Gym.

Mike, you make some interesting observations seeing things from the professional side. I never saw anyone working on the lines so I have no idea how they accessed them. As you say, the outer wires would have been a challenge to access. The ‘twisted’ are just a parallax issue. From the same spot looking to the right the wires (horizontally opposed on the wooden gantry) lead onto vertical poles. The gantry is merely a distribution structure to the adjacent pole route



As to the lack of protection on the gantry, maybe the Russians allow their gene pool to purify itself naturally and those left of a wiser disposition are not tempted to climb it!

[EDITED to say]:

Thanks for editing all those phographs in the first section Mike and for inserting the above picture - much appreciated.


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[This message has been edited by Hutch (edited 06-28-2005).]