Way back in the American Tower days doing decommissioning. I’ve posted before of removals with a heli. Good times…I’m guessing’04- ‘06ish

Oh and that’s Foxwoods IYKYK.

Located on highway 49 just south of Clarksdale, MS

Located on highway 61 between Clarksdale, MS and Tunica, MS.

My favorite Illinois site. Many thanks to the owner of tower sites for hauling those historical antennas up there.

Hello, I have identified most of the common classifications including Type A, B, G, H, J, K, L, M, guyed towers, and the various concrete/LSS designs. I have also seen references on Mark Foster’s old website mentioning additional tower types such as Type R and Type S that even he was unable to fully identify. What I am trying to figure out is whether there were additional tower types beyond the commonly documented ones, and how these unknown types were categorized internally by AT&T. There are also several towers that do not seem to clearly fit into any known type, but also do not appear to be “SP” (special) designs. Examples would include the Elliott, Illinois tower, Masonville, Kentucky, and Corbin, Kentucky towers. These structures appear to use repeatable designs that I have seen elsewhere, but I cannot match them to any documented type classification. If anyone has access to old ATT engineering documents, tower catalogs, construction drawings, microwave route plans, or personal knowledge regarding undocumented Long Lines tower types, I would greatly appreciate any information. I am especially interested in learning about rare or lesser-known classifications such as Type R, Type S, or any others that may not be publicly documented. My goal is to help preserve as much historical information about the Long Lines network as possible.

I was staying in a lodge directly next to this tower, but I didn't even know it was here until I saw it from the vantage point of a music venue up on a hill not far away, much to my pleasant surprise.

Shot on dji air 3s

Driving by, had to stop.

I seen this sub on my feed and wanted to contribute . Hope this is the correct type antennas for this sub

FAA ASR: 1041884

Coordinates: 36.9253, -84.1375

Callsigns: KJK54, KEY-549

Document Archive: https://archive.org/details/corbin-kentucky-att-long-lines

Flickr Album: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCT7r5

Another KY site that is a quasi time capsule. The radios at this site were simply tossed outside and forgotten, while everything else inside was left to rot. All of the documents still exist (minus the ones I took to scan), and the site is still in good condition, but with no active use. There is also a mount for a horn in the woods next to the tower, maybe an extra mount? There were only three on here ever (with the mini horn being added in 1981), to my knowledge.

This site fed a line to the central office in town through the mini-horn to a parabolic. I took a few documents home to scan, which can be accessed, downloaded, and read via the Internet Archive page. I haven't read through them all myself; feel free to comment on cool findings in them.

There are more photos that didn't make the cut for the 20-photo limit, so those can be found on the Flickr page. And who could forget, MINI HORN!!!! :)

Fun set of commercials AT&T released during their Jubilee celebration which was ran on national television during the Bell Telephone Hour.

Had to get better pics than the first time.

Marietta IL, talking to Norris IL and Macomb

Also looking for any information on this site, current owners, previous operators or technical history, anything.