how far apart are power line going the cajon pass?
I don’t know about Cajon because I’m quite sure that the power companies involved have particular criteria determineing such things; there is, however, a ball park figure of 88 feet which measures to 60 per mile; allegedly head-end trainmen used to measure the number of poles passed in one minute and that told them the speed of their train. Believe it or not, it works out if you do have 60 poles per mile.
One thing about power lines which was brought to my attention by my (ex-) wife; we were observing a length of track which had been cut and filled through shallow ridges and she said, “Did you notice that there is always a pole at the top of each ridge?” I hadn’t; I do now. The power company adjusts - closes up - the interval of its poles to insure that there is a pole where the line tops a ridge; this keeps the sag in the line from brushing the ridge tops. This fact gets missed by some people. PICKY! PICKY! PICKY!
I’m conducting a pole today: - no, not a poll; I’m conducting this from the top of a pole - anyway, which is better, Atlas or Kato? I don’t really care but this question pops up five or six times a week and I thought I would get this weeks quota out of the way by sundown.
There are no poles in Cajon pass. Just high voltage transmission towers. There are 3 sets and like mentioned above they tend to be located on the high points of the terrain. Some spans are several hundred feet apart.You can see them on google maps by looking at the satellite view.
The High Tension steel towers behing my house in the woods are 300’ apart. These carry 6 voltage lines, at 115KV each. The upper two lines are ground lines.
Atlas or Kato was asked on the smoking thread. Sorry.