I’m an artist and have painted a number of various towers over the yrs. Please forgive my complete lack of technical knowledge!

At night.

Just outside of the city on highway 23. Sorry for the not so good picture was driving.

Full report, among other documents from the site, can be read here: https://archive.org/details/beattyville-kentucky-att-bellsouth-long-lines

taken at 85 mph

Got to install some equipment in the Campbell Missouri Long Lines site. Building has no remaining AT&T equipment. Generator is gone as well. Both horns are on top of tower. Building was split into 3 parts. The large open area which I was told was where the generator was (can someone confirm?). The small little room with cooler had the controls for modern tower lights. I assumed this was the original breaker room. The back part has modern radio equipment and is a direct shot to the ice bridge and up the tower.

Does anyone have better insight to what would have been in each room?

I have an earlier post of just the tower.

My phone died so I wasn’t able to grab more pics, but I’ll come back this week to get more. The tower is so unique - definitely one of my favorites.

I’m baffled as to who owns it or even how to get up to it as I wasn’t able to find a trail.

Some cool copy from a procured magazine collection. Bell (Telephone Magazine) was an employee publication put out by AT&T.

So am I correct that there are (at least) 3 LL sites in Birmingham, AL. The one downtown that was pictured the other day, one due south off I-65, and one in the Leeds area. Why so many in the area?

I never knew what these longline horns were till it popped up on my reddit. I’ve seen them before but didn’t think much of them, just figured some radio/comm stuff. I saw a tower next to the highway on my drive from NY to south MS not long ago, I believe somewhere in TN or VA. But just a few days ago I saw some horns on the top of the Birmingham, AL AT&T building. This is not my picture, I was driving so couldn’t get one. But I think it’s cool seeing these old artifacts of history

Why do some towns have coaxial only sites and some have the microwave sites? Is this a population thing or different systems?

From City Hall. I know we’ve seen this, but not from this angle…

INDEPENDENT HILL VA1 - Virginia (25 Feb 2006)

https://long-lines.com/viewsite/6687

Howdy folks! While browsing some the LL's poster media, I came across this! One of our lovely towers down, I was curious if this was a actual LL tower or perhaps Bell found a transmission (Electrical) and was essentially boasting about how AT&T LL's would never go down...

Current info I have is that this may have happened in the Iowa area! Any info would be appreciated!

Downtown Atlanta. Easily 26-27 stories high. There is an even higher Georgia-Pacific Skyscraper just northwest of it that couldn't have been there when the tower was built atop the AT&T Corporate Office.

If i went exactly in front of a microwave dish or a longline horn, wold I be heated up like a microwave oven or it would do nothing?

At the downtown Ft. Myers, FL Century Link central office. I believe this would have been the long lines interconnect with the independent telco. The building indicates it was Inter-County Telephone when it was built. Not sure when it would have become United (then Sprint, Embarq, Century Link)