[CBQ] New Photo of Norris with old gons and refrigerator 1913

["archieh1946" <kliner@mywdo.com>]

Group,  Need some help with a picture I just put in the photo section.  
It is the depot at Norris, Illinois about 1913 showing some good shots 
of cars.  My question concerns the small wooden box at the top of the 
telegraph pole.  It almost resembles a tall skinny bird house.  I've 
seen this on other poles beside the depots of that era.  Do you think 
it was some kind of lightning arrester?  On one of the gons I think the 
abreviation for Beardstown appears.  It that the case, and was that a 
comman practice to assign cars to a certain division?   Archie



 
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