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« on: June 13, 2011, 05:28:07 pm »
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Well Captnbad has a nice railroad adventure that becomes more and more exciting as we speak. It seems that it is contagious because I just began yesterday to explore an old railroad bed (the tracks were all removed) and here is what I found in just 1.5 hours on a fragment of the site. Actually, the bed is rather long and it may take months or years to cover well. I might even be able to open a railroad bed antiques store with all the goodies I'll find  Cheesy. Here they are: Two 10.5" x 7" railroad tiles? (not sure what they are), a 6.5" spike, a 10.5 long bolt, a few train flattened coins, a WW2 U.S. Navy Stainless Steel spoon by Silco, 187 memorial pennies, a few clad quarters, 2 wheat pennies (1944-D, 1956-D) and an Indian SS spoon. Going back tomorrow for there are a gizillian pennies everywhere. It seems that in the 60s kids had fun putting coins on the tracks to be flattened and many fell to the sides with track vibration, I guess.

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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2011, 05:54:43 pm »
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Cool spot for sure.     Is that quarter silver?

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Cool spot for sure.     Is that quarter silver?


I don't think the quarter is silver, but I can't even see a date. It was smasheeed  Cry

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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2011, 06:24:33 pm »
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I'm betting it is. 

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I'm betting it is. 


Ok, I bet you a smashed quarter! Just kidding. I'll go for more tomorrow and will put them in the tumbler separately and will see, but usually silver comes out clean here. These coins are not really buried, and they are mostly found between the bed's rocks. Can't wait to find more wheaties and of couse silver  Wink

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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2011, 09:29:38 pm »
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Cyberborikua, That is a fabulosly productive site. You had an excellent day and will find silver there. Those flat plates with holes in them are called 'frogs' I believe. I work an old railroad site too. I guess you found out a frog will give a dime signal when buried at about 8 inches. I've dug a ton of them and other old railroad iron.  My site was operational from 1867 to 1945 but it is well hunted and in the words of one of the original hunters "we used to find pennies all over the tracks" meaning the bed because the tracks were gone in 1945. My favorite find from the site was a WWI tin soldier carrying a artillery spotting instrument. Good work, keep it up. 

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Cyberborikua, That is a fabulosly productive site. You had an excellent day and will find silver there. Those flat plates with holes in them are called 'frogs' I believe. I work an old railroad site too. I guess you found out a frog will give a dime signal when buried at about 8 inches. I've dug a ton of them and other old railroad iron.  My site was operational from 1867 to 1945 but it is well hunted and in the words of one of the original hunters "we used to find pennies all over the tracks" meaning the bed because the tracks were gone in 1945. My favorite find from the site was a WWI tin soldier carrying a artillery spotting instrument. Good work, keep it up. 


Thanks Gambo. Prior to this RR bed location I was in the woods and had found a 1946 Rosie, a wheaty, and some clad. Now, what exactly is a RR frog? One of them was attached to a fallen wooden square pole with a single spike, and the other one was found barely buried. What timeframe you think those things are? Some of the smashed pennies are memorials so the train got to be running at least to the mid/late 60s.

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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2011, 10:40:01 pm »
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Real nice finds on the plates,The joint where two rails are connected is the weakest part of a rail line. The earliest iron rails were joined by a simple fishplate or bar of metal bolted through the web of the rail. Stronger methods of joining two rails together have been developed. When sufficient metal is put into the rail joint, the joint is almost as strong as the rest of the rail length. Check this

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Posted on: June 13, 2011, 10:11:26 PM
Cyberborikua, here are some of the bolts I have traced back to a kilby flatbed lumber car from 1889,pretty close to your bolt. looks like your on to a line like mine thats a lot of iron. Good luck
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I don't think the quarter is silver, but I can't even see a date. It was smasheeed  Cry

Usually, clad coinage splits when dropped onto the tracks and pressed flat. Only the copper remains and two pieces of "nickel foil." It's probably silver.

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Real nice finds on the plates,The joint where two rails are connected is the weakest part of a rail line. The earliest iron rails were joined by a simple fishplate or bar of metal bolted through the web of the rail. Stronger methods of joining two rails together have been developed. When sufficient metal is put into the rail joint, the joint is almost as strong as the rest of the rail length. Check this

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Posted on: June 13, 2011, 10:11:26 PM
Cyberborikua, here are some of the bolts I have traced back to a kilby flatbed lumber car from 1889,pretty close to your bolt. looks like your on to a line like mine thats a lot of iron. Good luck
 Lou


Thanks Lou. I must admit my little to none knowledge about RR. I was puzzled by the wording on the plates and thought it had something to do with electricity. How wrong I was. Those plates got to be part of the RR for their heavy iron content. Still wondering about how old those plates might be. I try to catalog all my finds by timeframe for when friends ask about them. Any further info will be appreciated.  Wink

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Usually, clad coinage splits when dropped onto the tracks and pressed flat. Only the copper remains and two pieces of "nickel foil." It's probably silver.


 Shocked Maybe it is silver then.  Kiss I must go for more today after work. Can't wait. Thanks Homefire and GD.

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