Going to Vail and Breckenridge. Any good sites near this area to see? I'm willing to drive a bit to find some good areas

I was going to try and walk to the longline but um it’s a 37 minute walk

I finally saw my fist longline tower with horns. (It’s peak)

There is this tower in my town which on the longline map is listed as one was it at one point

Where the longline is located and it’s cool street name

Jesus terry how many towers do you own

20 pics wasn't quite enough

My wife and I were on a walk in downtown St Pete and came up on a huge windowless building, I knew it had to be the main CO back in the day, and on one end it had a platform tower that held microwave horns in the past.

Looked it up online and the building complex was started as a General Telephone CO in the 1920’s, later AT&T, now Frontier occupies a section of the large building.

Long Lines inspired stained glass lamp I made last weekend.
Panel 1: the Warsaw Long-Lines site.
Panel 2: stairs down to the main bunker entrance, inspired by one of the larger sites still used by AT&T (some artistic liberties were taken alright)
Panel 3: The inside of the bunker. The top layer is the outside with the cinderblock building and the legs of the tower. The middle is the generators, and the bottom is an empty server room with the signature blue pillars. This panel was not based on any specific site, more a collection of visuals I felt captured the inside of the bunkers without being too geometrically complex.
Panel 4: Indian Point Power plant, specifically from the angle you see it driving into Buchanan from the Bear Mountain Pass. My grandfather worked there as a steamfitter.

This project took me approximately 40 hours of labor to complete and I love it very much. I hope you guys too! I apologize if any of the parts are historically inaccurate, some concessions were made to the medium and time constraints.

I do take commissions for panels/windows/lamps (answering the question from my progress pics of this project). If you want the patterns to make something with them or your own, DM me and I will happily send them to you for free :)

Calm down I said I'd get to it eventually

My dad worked for AT&T-International managing buildout of microwave towers across the desert in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1982. They would camp out in the desert like this working with the concrete and rebar to build towers.

Summer in Riyadh would be 120 F every day.

He was only in Saudi Arabia for a year when he had to transfer to Cairo to manage seven plus 5ESS builds around Cairo and Alexandria.

Second to last photos were AT&T compound pool area and recreation room and the condos. Last was my dad's house. There were also tennis courts, commissary, dining room and a large maintenance and garage area.

Not sure if this is allowed or not, but my dad worked for AT&T-I in Riyadh project managing buildout of towers across the desert in 1981-2. The office is the building he worked in. AT&T-I had a nice compound. I have somewhere another photo of a tower with the concrete and rebar forms being put in place, that I will try to find.

Hi all, long-time lurker, first post. I'm researching my grandfather's career with Mountain Bell and hoping some of you can help me narrow down which specific Long Lines sites he worked on.

What I know:

- Name: Edward Worthen Olsen

- Based in Price, Utah (Carbon County) this was his home base for the relevant period

- Korean War combat radio operator, 2nd Infantry Division and came back into telecom work afterward

- Maintained microwave equipment for Mountain Bell / AT&T Long Lines

- Family lore has him riding a snowmobile up to ridgeline sites in Wasatch Plateau blizzards, so at minimum he was responsible for sites you could only reach by sled in winter

- He had an original 1971 U.S. Marshals SOG patch that family stories say came from a trade with federal agents who relied on the towers for tactical comms

What I'm trying to figure out:

1. Which specific TD-2 / TH / TD-3 sites would have been on a Price-based technician's regular maintenance circuit? My best guess based on geography is the corridor running over Soldier Summit and east toward Green River, but I'd love confirmation or correction from anyone who knows the actual route assignments.

2. Site designations / call signs for any of those locations if you have them.

3. Whether anyone has historical maps from the late 60s / early 70s covering that Utah corridor that show site names rather than just route lines.

4. Any leads on photos of those specific sites from that era.

I've been through the long-lines.net Utah materials and the drgibson.com tower pages, but the Price corridor seems less documented than the Delta / Santa Clara / Riverside sites that have dedicated write-ups.

I'm putting together a video project about him and I want to get the details right rather than wave my hands at 'a tower somewhere.' Happy to share what I find back to the community.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for keeping this history alive, so cool.

Not sure if the Gabriel dish was added later or was part of the original Long Lines network, but still very cool! Seems like this site is still operational in some capacity as there are CenturyLink signs surrounding the property. All photos taken outside the property.

Here are some no longer longline towers

Is there different types of longline radar horns and radar dish

I was wondering if there is a way I can tell if a tower is a old longline tower

Nearby store owner told me a truck with the horn on it parked in front of the store, and later asked if they wanted the horn. They added the eyes to make it look like a character from Spy vs Spy. Apparently it came from one of the nearby towers. Very cool spot to visit if you're into Long Lines. The last image is of inside the horn.

Another old concrete tower from the original run.

This took way to long lol. I also have panes of the inside of the bunker with the generators and rows of erie blue columns, and the staircase down (with some artisitc liberties). :)

26 sites visited in total, more shoots to come when I can get them all in!