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Relics at the Huber Breaker - 

It was very sunny, but cold, I decided to do some photography of the Huber Breaker in Ashley. I
found some neat relics.  I followed the road buy the abandoned auto emmissions testing building
and came upon some things I never seen before. 

I walked down a trail and came to an 

Explosives shed -

 in a grove of Locust trees among some foundations, there was a metal shed. On it was a sign
painted on, do not enter with exposed flame. There was a metal dutch door on it and on the one
side there was a small cabinet on the side. The whole thing was rusted and the roof had only
metal rafter on it. Interesting.

After examining and photographing this structure, I doubled back along the trail and came to
some 

Concrete tunnels/culverts -

 these structures had metal pipe railings. It seems the culverts were to carry railroad tracks or
haul roads over the creek. They channels were about 12 feet deep and also had brick and cut
stone retaining walls. 

I move on an the next thing I saw was a

Pole with antique fixture, old transformer, inslators, - 

The pole had this old metal fixture for a street light, the light was missing though. The pole had
some small cylinders on it, old transformers, I presume.  Also the pole had climging pegs on it. 
Several dead-end style insulators were on the side of the pole as well as a copper line. Some mud
insulators were on top.  The purpose of this pole was to light the 

Wide wooden trestle -

 maybe wide enough for 8 tracks or more. Thes looked like it was a lower yard. Some gauge
other than standard crossed the trestle. It was only about ten feet long and went over a four foot
creek channel.  I did not trust the planks, so I walked over the rail. Two sets remained. Further
up the creek toward the culverts were standard guage rails on the side of the creek. Apparently
there was a trestle there at one time too.  It looks this lower yard has for the narrow gauge mine
cars.

I did find some fallen poles here and there, but no insulators were found.


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Of course I shot several rolls of film on the breaker. The windows glared in the seting sunlight.

Tell-Tales - 

I also came across tell-tales, those wire things above the rails that alerted crew members on the
roofs of cars to get down because an obstruction  was comminng.

The Ashley boro building still has the CNJ signal beside it. 

I left the area and headed south along the breaker. Along the road was metal power distribution
towers, abandoned. At one time these towers carried the Huber's power to customers near Glen
Lyon. 

I went through Sugar Notch and just befor I got to Glen Lyon, there was a top of a high tension
tower on the side of the road, with some mud insulators too.  Along the main road there the side
of the road was once the roadbed of a trolley line.