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StreetLight#108B - Old Fluorescent VHO/PG (updated pic)
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Old fluorescent PowerGroove/VHO fixture...
This is actually an updated (better quality) pic of this one posted back in 2012
I'm not sure that it is even a streetlight/outdoor fixture. Or for that matter if it works.
Location: Bailey Colorado
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This is gone now. Disappeared sometime this summer.
I went through Baily on this past weekend And yep I've noticed new streetlights have been going up.
I don't know if they turned out, but I have some pic's of the new power poles (without lines) they've put up down around Fairplay. If they turned out, will be posted here at some point.
I also got a look at the area where the Westin Pass Fire was.
At first when I saw the poles with no lines, I thought ..wait, are they putting the lines underground or something.. Then I realized that those are new poles! they're doing an upgrade!
It would make sense that they'd stop at a substation like that.
Am I to assume Platte Canyon High then? Been by there plenty of times myself (and been meaning to get a pic of the parking-lot streetlights .lol. )
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I .might. be back up that way in a couple weeks, so will have to check on progress if I am.
Looks like they were getting real close to stringing the new lines since a section of poles had 'wheels' on them where the lines would attach.. It'd be really interesting to see the work actually being done.
Back when they were doing the first set when the people directed me to the dumpster, they told me they were upgrading the lines from Fairplay to Aspen Park, where the 115 kV lines under Xcel energy stop and change to the IREA 45 kV. From the substation near Hartsel they added a line from the power lines from that substation (115 kV) and brought it to fairplay to the substation the 45 kV lines ended at, and are going backwards upgrading them all, so no electricity goes out when they do that. And eventually they will go to the subsation in Aspen park at the Barkley/285 intersection. That is what they told me.
And yeah, that's the school I went to, and the middle school next to it before that (and the elementary school which was somewhere else but same district.
I saw them string the lines when they were working on the ones from Fairplay to Como long ago, that's when I got out and asked them about it and they directed me to the dumpster. Also it seems they are using a different contractor this time, before that they used CPL I believe and now it's some out of state company.
I kinda remember them working on the lines between Fairplay & Como (and that substation near the Como turn-off too) at some point in the past.
Its been a couple years since I was last through Hartsel.
They've got a long way to go still if they're going all the way to Aspen Park! I wondered where the Xcel/IREA point was along there..
I believe I would have been same school district as well, just completely different schools (and a long time ago for me .lol. )
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You can scroll around and see so me other pics but those are the insulators I got from the dumpster. They are all except for a few I brought back in Arkansas now but yeah.
And yeah it is a long way but that is what they told me. and they are slowly working their way. You can also go deep into my gallery and I have pics of the parking lot lights from the high school and a picture of the lights inside the cafeteria room that I took when I was still attending.
I'll have to go look for those lights
I also put up a pic that I took Saturday of one on the new poles here