Large Lattice H-Frame
A bolted-angle tower of steel lattice that carried postwar transmission at voltages and spans timber could never reach. The workhorse of the buildout years: rustable, repairable, and strung by the mile across open country.
[Short serif heading for the design story — e.g. the structure, named plainly]
[What inspired this kit — the real structure behind it, where you first saw one, why it mattered enough to model. Two or three sentences, first person, plain maker's voice.]
[The bench story — one honest design decision: what was hard to get right, which piece choices carry the character, what you rebuilt three times. No instructions, no build sequence.]
Bolted to last
When timber ran out of reach, BEPCO turned to steel. The lattice H-frame traded tall trees for angle iron and an almost unreasonable number of bolts, carrying the postwar buildout across country the founding grid had never reached. It was never called handsome, and never pretended otherwise, but it galvanized well, rusted slowly, and could be climbed and repaired by anyone with a wrench and a head for heights. The Company keeps it in the records as the mid-century workhorse it was, and its Instruction Booklet accounts for every last bolt.