Well, Ottawa has had an extremely mild winter this year, and currently there is no snow left anywhere except on north and east facing slopes. Unfortunately the lack of snow means there is still deep frost in many places, especially under coniferous trees. Anyhoo, I found a pole stump back in February along the old CNR line between Ottawa and Hawkesbury. This line has been abandoned for over 70 years, so a pole stump is a rarity here. The advantage of this line is the fact that is has hardly been touched. Every pole site yeilds parts of at least 10 insulators. The problem of course lies therein. I have never found anything intact!
I took the kids to the pole site to find the ground soft and wet. On the first probe I hit glass. Digging turned up part of a B CD145. More digging turned up (all broken) a Diamond CD152 in straw, part of a grey CNR 143, a hemi blue cd154, a light green and straw Dominion 154 and domes from 2 more 143s. The most amazing peice I found was a TCR CD145! It was broken, but enough was left to glue back together. This particular one has the TCR over the blotted out embossing.
A cool feature of this one is the twisted inner skirt. Looks like the inner part of the mold was removed while it was still hot. I'll bring it to Perth for your comments
Now, I thought TCR was for Temiskaming Colonization Railway... being the line running from Mattawa into Quebec... Am I right?
To me it's like finding a GTP insulator... it shouldn't be on a Canadian Northern line. But I have learned to expect the unexpected in this hobby
Where else have TCR's shown up?
Chris