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The thing I remember most about this was the pole IDs. No labels on the poles themselves, certainly no GPS or anything like that. No, they were identified by starting at a substation and following the line, counting poles, and indicating wherever the line split. So e.g. you'd have a transformer on pole Eastsound-W7L2R1 (go west from Eastsound substation for 7 poles, go left at the branch for 2 more, then the next one on the right). Imagine the linesmen going to do some maintenance driving along counting.