AEP's Transmission Goalposts

Nov. 9, 2016
Bright yellow goalposts flanking an interstate highway in Canton, Ohio, are actually transmission towers.

The bright yellow goalposts flanking an interstate highway in Canton, Ohio, are actually transmission towers. The already iconic 80-ft (24-m)-tall goalposts arose during the summer of 2016 in response to a challenge by Hall of Fame planners who wondered if American Electric Power Transmission, POWER Engineers Inc. and Valmont Utility engineers, who were collaborating on a 69-kV rebuild near the gridiron landmark, could build football-themed transmission structures where the conductors would span I-77. The engineers could have punted. Instead, they huddled to create a distinctively playful structure with utilitarian function and commercial possibilities.

For further information on the project, see "Memorable Structures," originally featured in the November issue of Transmission & Distribution World magazine.

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