My first love for finding "good" insulators is the Central of Georgia Railway telegraph line. Wherever I went out insulator hunting, this line would yield very old and often unexpected insulators. However, sometimes I stray. In 1968, I would often duck hunted Lake Seminole on the GA side. When I took the long trip, I would leave at 2:00 AM so as to be in my hunting spot at first light. I would quite by noon leaving a few hours to hunt insulators on the way back to to Warner Robins, GA. On one of these trips, I did my insulator hunt on the Seaboard Coast Railway line that ran South out of Bainbridge, GA. To reach this site you take 27 out of Bainbridge to Attapulgus, GA. You than drive on 241 (Quincy Highway?) which intersects the Seaboard Coast line. I walked the track North - South would take you into Florida. The track North went by a number of swampy areas and the telegraph line had three tiers - the bottom for power and two other active tiers. Most of the insulators were Hemingray 40, 42, and 45's with a large number of aqua CD 145 HG Petticoats. About a half mile North, I found a section that had about 10 or so CD 194 /195 Hemingray 54's two piece transpositions. On the way back to the car I looked for the darkest SCA which was hard since the insulators were all heavy with back soot. I went up the pole and changed out one for my collection using a common Hemingray 53. The embossing was as follows: Hemingray -54-B / Made In U,S.A. /1-45 (Bottom Base) Hemingray -54-A / Made In U.S.A. /1-45. I will post pictures of both the front and back. Note: The dark object in the picture is a sawed off pin used to hold the top and bottom together.

I stand corrected! Thanks to a reader that caught the fact I had the CD number wrong.