Trips from Muncie to Fort Wayne were common when I was a kid, and I always looked forward to seeing a pair of unique steel towers with shell-shaped antennae. I stumbled across several more over the years as I grew up. Once I found out what they were, I hopped down a deep into the AT&T Long Line rabbit hole. I’ve been posting about them every Sunday since November, but I’ve got to press pause for a few weeks. I ran out of photos!
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During the 1950s and 60s, AT&T erected tons of microwave relay towers throughout the United States. They were part of the Long Lines network, a transcontinental telecommunications system. Today, the towers’ imposing presence persists: Part of an old central office, one of them is the tallest building in downtown Muncie!
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Sixty and seventy years ago, AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its transcontinental Long Line communications network. It’s been a long time since they were used in that capacity, but many of the towers still stand. One of them is in Noblesville.
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AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network. Although they haven’t been used as part of it in nearly forty years, many towers remain standing across Indiana. One looms over an elementary school in Anderson.
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AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network. Although they haven’t been used as part of it in nearly forty years, many towers remain standing across Indiana. One, particularly stacked with antenna, stands just north of Michigantown.
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Sixty and seventy years ago, AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its transcontinental Long Line communications network. It’s been a long time since they were used in that capacity, but many of the towers still stand. One stands outside of Sheridan, Indiana.
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For years, one of AT&T’s Long Line microwave relay towers stood near Burlington, Indiana. It connected signals from a tower thirteen miles southwest in Frankfort with another sixteen miles east in Kokomo and a third eighteen miles northeast in Anoka1.
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During the 1950s and 60s, AT&T erected tons of microwave relay towers throughout the United States. They were part of the Long Lines network, a transcontinental telecommunications system. Today, the towers’ imposing presence persists: its antennas have been removed, but one looks over a neighborhood just outside Frankfort.
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AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network. Although they haven’t been used as part of it in nearly forty years, many towers remain standing across Indiana. One looms over a bowling alley in Lebanon.
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AT&T’s Long Line tower at Etna Green was built in 1956 or 19571. It rises to a height of 333 feet above the rural Indiana countryside2.
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Ted Shideler 