[2] At the east end of the line, it was connected to the utility's Boulder Canyon Hydroelectric Plant powered from the Barker Meadow Reservoir.
At Dillon, a secondary line served the numerous gold dredges of the Breckenridge placer mining district.
Within a few years of construction, sleet buildups of as much a 6 inches (15 cm) had been observed on wires along the line.
Several towers were buckled and demolished by wind force alone—wind speeds of over 165 miles per hour (266 km/h) were measured at one point along the line, leading to metal fatigue at the points where insulators support the power line.
[8][7] The IEEE has honored the line for its length, and for deployment in difficult terrain and unusually harsh weather patterns.