Areas · Fairfax County
Reels and spools in Herndon: a town on the Silver Line and the Toll Road
HERNDON, Va. — Herndon, ZIPs 20170 and 20171, is an incorporated town on the Dulles Toll Road with offices, data rooms and new apartments around its Silver Line station, between Reston and Dulles Airport. Its reels come from that building, and the desk picks them up from sites and docks.
From the reel desk · Checked 9 November 2026
Schematic line map, not to survey: Herndon marked, with Dulles Toll Road, Route 28 drawn heavier. The Potomac, the Anacostia, the District line and the Beltway are drawn for bearings.
Fact box: Herndon
- ZIPs
- 20170, 20171
- Main roads
- Dulles Toll Road, Route 28, Centreville Road, Elden Street
- Transit
- Herndon and Innovation Center stations (Silver Line)
- Trail
- W&OD Trail through the town centre
Town and corridor
Herndon is an old railroad town, now on the W&OD Trail, with a small historic downtown. Around it, along the Dulles Toll Road and Centreville Road, are office parks, technology firms, data rooms and hotels serving the airport corridor. The Silver Line’s extension to Dulles opened in 2022 with stations at Herndon and at Innovation Center, and new apartments and offices have followed.
Office and data-room reels
Offices along the Toll Road are refitted for new tenants constantly. Each fit-out leaves building wire reels, data cable reels and sometimes feeder reels. Data rooms, technology buildings and the newer mixed-use projects near the stations use more cable and larger reels.
Station-area building
Apartment buildings near the Silver Line stations leave building wire on small and plywood reels and copper feeders on 42 to 60 inch reels. Sites near stations are often tight, with staging in a garage or a corner of the site.
How pickups work here
- Office fit-outs: a few reels from a loading dock, timed to the building’s hours.
- Station-area sites: scheduled pickups during construction, garage clearance with the request.
- Data rooms: site access rules and badging; steel reels set aside for their makers.
Herndon pickups often combine with Reston and Sterling, which are a few minutes away.
Buyers
Herndon homeowners and community gardens ask for small table and hose reels. The town’s restaurants and breweries sometimes ask for reels as outdoor tables. A reel used outdoors should be nailed wood, sealed and kept off the ground.
Getting here
The Dulles Toll Road runs east to Reston and Tysons and west to the airport. Route 28 runs along the town’s western edge. Centreville Road runs south toward Chantilly. Elden Street runs through the old town.
Sending a request from Herndon
- Count and measure. Count the reels and measure the largest flange edge to edge across the face. A photo with the tape in it is better than a guess.
- Check the build. Nailed lumber, plywood sheet, steel or plastic. Look for a stencil or tag naming the maker and the reel number.
- Set aside steel and tagged returnables with their serial numbers. Those go back to the maker, not to the desk.
- Say where they stand: yard, dock, garage level, alley or curb, plus clearance, gate hours, badging or escort a driver needs.
- Say what loads them: forklift, pallet jack, loader, ramp, or only people. Reels over 42 inches weigh more than 100 lb empty.
- Say how often: one time, weekly, monthly or at each job close-out.
- Buying instead? Give the flange and height you want, how many, and how the reel gets from the truck to where it will sit.
- No form handy? Email info@dcwoodenspools.com with the same details and a few photos.
Reels you are likely to have
| Reel | Build | Flange | Traverse | Drum | Lb | Usually carries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-5 | Nailed wood | 23 | 17 | 12 | 34 | Copper building wire, grounding |
| A-10 | Nailed wood | 30 | 22 | 16 | 66 | Service drop, bare aluminium |
| N-24 | Nailed wood | 36 | 28 | 14 | 83 | Insulated and multiplex cable |
| A-29 | Nailed wood | 42 | 28 | 21 | 154 | Overhead conductor, feeders |
| A-38 | Nailed wood | 48 | 28 | 24 | 212 | Aluminium and ACSR, large feeders |
| A-62 | Nailed wood | 60 | 28 | 28 | 397 | Utility conductor |
| A-76 | Nailed wood | 66 | 28 | 30 | 473 | Heavy conductor |
| S-120 | Steel, returnable | 84 | 36 | 42 | 895 | Transmission and medium voltage |
Other makers' reels differ by an inch or two. All flange sizes · How to measure
Questions the desk gets
Can the desk pick up a few reels from an office fit-out?
Yes, from the loading dock during the building's hours. Send a count and the dock details.
Does the desk deliver reels for a restaurant patio?
Yes. For outdoor use, ask for sealed nailed wood reels.
Sources
Each opened and read on 9 November 2026.
- Loudoun County, Data Centers: The Loudoun Story: counts as of 1 March 2026: about 233 data centre buildings, 56.5 million sq ft; over 10 million sq ft permitted in 2025; 35.7 million sq ft approved but not built; by-right development ended in 2025
- Virginia DHCD, federal approval of Virginia's BEAD Final Proposal (19 November 2025): over $545 million to 23 providers for more than 133,000 unserved locations