Old City Light and Power Pole

Packard Park, Fort Wayne

While driving around Fort Wayne this winter I discovered one more area that has the old City Light and Power poles that were in an inner city park called Packard Park. With the poles being in a city park it would only have the City Light and Power lines, whereas in the neighborhoods it would of been both City Light and Power (CL&P) and Indiana Michigan Power (I&M). On March 1, 1975 all CL&P lines were leased to I&M for 35 years until on February 28, 2010, I&M would eventually become the exclusive electric service provider for Fort Wayne.

In this park there were eight old poles that had ball diamond lighting and one intermediate pole without the lights. All eight poles with the lighting had an old transformer, box cutout, lightning arrester, and the typical glass insulator for the one wire.

This shot shows a close up of an old GE transformer, box cutout, and two CD 218 Hemingray-660 glass insulators. This pole also had the lighting on top for the ball diamond.

This shot shows the same pole in a wide angle shot showing the ball diamond lighting.
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