Like the neon Esso sign too. Didn't realize you had Esso in Canada...I thought it was Exxon in all of North America but maybe it's just in the U.S. after all. You also don't see utility workers climbing poles like that anymore!
Nice! Interesting that the remote ballast is so far up the pole. Here the remote ballasts were typically secured to the pole right at the lag bolt flange on the mounting arm. Here's an example. It was common practice to leave the remote ballast on the pole here when they went HPS or when they replaced the clamshell with a MV cobrahead (since they had a "thing" for a while where they would replace clamshells with MV cobraheads for no other reason than just getting rid of some clamshells; this was before the HPS movement). However, when there's a pole renewal, the ballast cans (and sometimes the arm and fixture) do not get transferred, as the ballast is considered hazardous waste by NGrid (PCB-containing capacitors).
Yeah they seemed to have a tendency to mount the remote ballasts near the secondaries,in this installation the light was mounted lower,I have another pic coming soon of a pole exclusively for the light showing the remote ballast closer to the arm.
Ahh, interesting. Over here they used to mount the remote ballast next to the arm or slightly below the arm. There's a few poles here still with remote ballasts, having long been disconnected. They're removed during pole renawals.
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