Over the course of a lifetime, one can see how past experiences can be used much later in life. It is good you were able to pass some of it along to your students. While I was exposed to the power poles and towers, I will be more in my element once you get to building your substation. I spent 13 years in substations in my younger days, both climbing the structures to replace insulators to working on the controls as a field engineer. Now I have been in Telecommunications for 18 years where I started out in the mid '70s. With 4 layoffs to my 'credit' I always seemed to wind up in the utilities business one way or the other. We even get into video now, so you will need to add copper twisted pair cables, television coax, and fiber optics to your poles. 
Just kidding. I think the power lines and equipment is the most visible so they convey the illusion of a complete utility system on poles. Only Lee and I will be scrutinizing them to the hilt, and I must say, you are doing the best job I have ever seen!! I probably will never get to the point of doing anything more than the basics. Too much time for work, too little time for O gauge railroading!! Keep running those trains too!
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