Rail roads and their tracks.

[ArlyA]

Another video about the Barnard MN RR bridge collapse in 1875.

 

[BoylermanCT]

Recent photo from Two Harbors MN - overhead of yard view / October 2023 View attachment 832211

Beautiful shot!

 

[MossRoad]

Hiking in a county park near Kalamazoo, MI with my wife this weekend. Found an old fence in some woods. This was the end post.

 

[California]

Hiking in a county park near Kalamazoo, MI with my wife this weekend. Found an old fence in some woods. This was the end post.

View attachment 833084

Likely intended as a surveyed property corner, too.

 

[dodge man]

Likely intended as a surveyed property corner, too.

I’m a land surveyor and was thinking the same thing.

 

[ArlyA]

Retired mine rail is laying everywhere at some locations.

 

[Hay Dude]

On the abandoned rails I walk on around here, there’s a few spots with thousands of feet of long sections of rail just laying there. Can‘t believe nobody will retrieve them.

 

[bcp]

Maybe unused, not abandoned.

Or cost of retrieval is greater than income from sale of scrap rail.

When truly abandoned, railroads often request bids from scrappers and let them deal with removal and sale of ties, rail, and hardware.

Bruce

 

[California]

On the abandoned rails I walk on around here, there’s a few spots with thousands of feet of long sections of rail just laying there. Can‘t believe nobody will retrieve them.

There was a post above saying if you show up at a scrap dealer with RR stuff they call the cops.

 

[dodge man]

Through my work as a land surveyor I learned quite a bit about RR right of ways. I believe it takes something on a national level to abandon a RR row. I did a couple surveys where a very long gone railroad existed but it was never formally abandoned and probably never will be. It’s hard to even see where it was in most places.