Building with railroad rails

[stuckmotor]

The building I work in has overhead cranes and they run on the same rail. A few bits leftover were quickly swept up by the blacksmiths!

When I used to lurk on a couple of blacksmith's sites someone went into detail about how rails made good anvils because the top of the rail was hardened giving the smith's hammer bounce and resulting in less arm fatigue. After hammering out a piece of cold steel on a cheap anvil with no bounce, I went and bought one with a hardened top. It's a pleasure to pound on.

 

[MossRoad]

Yep, that's the place. We get our steel (for work) from there. It is rather impressive, and I'm glad I don't have to pay their electric bill!

Yikes! I can only imagine.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

You just need correct paper work to sell it

There is a railway salvage company here in Puget Sound. They have all the pieces. Rails, spikes, plates, ties, and even switches. There have been a lot of abandoned rail systems left from the logging days and the massive growth of the area. Removing old rail systems is a good business and the salvage company buys it up as a recycling effort. better than scrap prices.

Ron

 

[stuckmotor]

A while back I saw a presentation on one of the cable channels about how old rails are heated and pressed into T posts.

 

[3Ts]

There is a railway salvage company here in Puget Sound. They have all the pieces. Rails, spikes, plates, ties, and even switches. There have been a lot of abandoned rail systems left from the logging days and the massive growth of the area. Removing old rail systems is a good business and the salvage company buys it up as a recycling effort. better than scrap prices.

Ron

There are also abandoned mines with "light weight" rail where you can get rail with permission. I.e. old prospector gold mines, just be sure it's abandoned and you get permission.

 

[pmsmechanic]

Interesting reading on here.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have several lengths of rail road rail around here, like others here, some are used to pound on.

I also have a bunch of spikes, in fact I use to have so many spikes, when I build a pole building, I use to bore 5/8" holes and pound a spike in, to hold up the headers ect?..as they are strong and they were FREE.

SR

 

[sandman2234]

I have a table that was given to me by a trucking company that did a lot of work for the railroad. It is made out of pieces of rail track and is just a little on the heavy side. It has fork lift tubes under it so it can be moved! Whatever it was built for, it is too high for most of my needs so it just sits outside and collects stuff.
David from jax