Another day on the C&O has come to an end, but scenes like this will soon be just a memory. Signs of signal replacements have begun to pop up on this portion of the line, and the masts at West End Pemberville have already been replaced. It'll be a sad day for the die hard C&O fans when the last of these historic structures fall and fade into nonexistence.
Photos showing the railroad pole lines. The pole line used four basic electrical circuits - telegraph, telephone, signaling, and power. Modern technologies of fiber optics, microwave, radio, satellite, and computers have been replacing the pole lines.
