Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Ainsworth Tower

AinsworthTower
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At 253 feet in height, this tower beside the Grand Trunk Railroad is by far the tallest thing in Ainsworth. I don't know what kind of signal it transmits — radio? cell phone? railroad communications?

It was built in 1974.


In trying to find out what kind of tower this is, I came across Tracks and Towers, an interesting series of photographs of ... well, I'll let you guess.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Definitely not cell phones by the look of it.

Ainsworthiana said...

And I guess there wouldn't have been any cell phones to build it for in 1974. :)

Anonymous said...

Well, sure, not in 1974 but something modern could be added to an existing tower at any time. There's old factory smokestacks near where I live that now sport cell antennas.

Ainsworthiana said...

Maybe one of these times when the guys come to work on the tower, I'll go over there and ask them what it's for. They'll probably think I'm a nut. :D

Anthony C said...

Maybe one of them will ask you to lunch ;-)