Wow...I see few MO-8s here alone, and a McGraw Unidor 175 on top and a ITT town and country posttop!

i'd be in heaven with all that!

Back when I was younger, I visited Duquesne Light's warehouse and they always had massive piles of lights inside and outside of the building.

These things are gonna get morphed into maybe HPS fixtures or worse yet, heat sinks for the newfangled LED street lights, lol. Or maybe soda cans or whatever.

Noooooooo

Hey rather get them junked...into landfill into nothing? Or rather have them reused? You can't really save EVERYTHING! If you wanted to save EVERY STREETLIGHT in the USA alone....you won't be able to even store them even in a Football Stadium...you'll need EVEN BIGGER STORAGE THAN THAT!

I know Jace, but still

Breakes my heart.

I'd be going nuts! I visited the RIDOT (Rhode Island Department of Transportation) warehouse and there was a huge pile of M-400R2s, OVM, and possibly M-250R2s and OVS. They guy asked if I wanted some, but that was unfourtunatly before I was into lights. I don't know if that pile is still there. The last time i went was 5 years ago when I was 8. Maybe I could try agian some time. I know for a fact it was all HPS though because that's all the state has used for a while. No utility owned lights here, all interstate lights. Still, it was a nice pile of good older lights.

You should snag some of these lights for us! Only... if you are allowed to do that. xD

if he works there he can't just take lights.

Plus he would have to pay for them anyway.

I highly doubt an employee of the company would have to pay for old lights that are going to be scrapped.

You pay the scrap value, based on the mass. Same as any scrapyard. Sometimes you pay, other times the amount is so small the guys might just give them rather than have the pain of all the paperwork they have to fill in.

I doubt a lineman that has been working all day at a hard job is really going to have to pay their own company, the company want's to keep their workers happy after all. Here I know several companies that will give lights to me without any charge.

I've always wondered if the contractors here would actually sell used streetlights, traffic lights, road signs, etc to people.

It depends on the person. If the contractor is cheap, he might not be willing to loose the $10 for scrap. If he's generous, $10 isn't a big deal to him.

What if you, say offered to pay like $10-20 for it.

I meant giving it for free. If i ask a lineman for a light i wouldn't give more than $15. If it was a modern light i wouldn't pay him

The lights I got were $16 plus tax regardless of their condition working or not.