As I approach the last year of doing this stuff for a living, I can point to one of my former 'pets', a WW II vintage powerhouse. It had an overhead crane that could trolley from one end of the building to the other. The crane was 480 - 3-phase, fed by open trolley conductors. at each major structural member those conductors were supported by porcelain stand-off insulators that were installed in the early 1940's and never cleaned since then. I'd estimate we had a couple of dozen of those insulators on each phase.
During a shutdown maintenance period I decided to put a megohmmeter on those conductors.
Withe the shoes lifted on the trolley to take it out of the picture, each phase to ground read less than 90,000 ohms, the leakage being distributed over each of those poor old nasty insulators.
I talked with the boos and with the powerhouse engineer. We put the circuit back in service and as far as I know, it's STILL working.
old field guy