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Red_Oak-Iowa
Photos of the Red Oak Iowa site by Jim Hebbeln.

RedOak-IA-E This picture is looking at the east side of the site as seen from Iowa Highway 48, about 200' south of its intersection with County Road H54. I enjoy the contrast between between the bucolic Iowa farmhouse, and the looming high technology of the 1960's.  I believe the tower legs were about 40-45 feet apart.  The antennas facing east toward the camera are aimed at Corning.  The left (south-southeast) antennas route to Braddyville, just north of the Missouri state line, and onward to Kansas City.
RedOak-IA-NW This view from the northwest show the tower, equipment building, and 6-vehicle garage.  The front entrance on the left (north) side of building appeared to have a security guard desk in the vestibule which looked out onto county road  H54.  Apparently, this was a base for maintenance of several radio sites, if not cables.  There were some AT&T (not NW Bell/USWest/Qwest) cable warning signs but I didn't have time to check them out.
RedOak-IA-NW3 A view from the base of the northwest tower leg.  Red Oak does not appear in the American Tower Corp



Info:
August 03, 2004

Red Oak, Iowa, is located roughly 40 air miles southeast of Omaha, about six miles south of Red Oak and 1.5 miles east of Coburg. It is a 5-way juction that appears to be part of a radio route carrying television and telephone circuits between Chicago (or Norway, IL) and Los Angeles and points between as it traverses Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, and west through New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California. However, its proximity to the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in southern Omaha shouldn't be ignored. The building appeared abandoned when the pictures were taken in April 2003.