Best condition railroad plate Ive found yet.

[Neildo85]

Best condition railroad plate I've found yet.

I have been searching a local park off and on for a couple years now. There I have found bunches of railroad plates, spikes and a few smaller chunks of track from the decades past when the park was my town's depot. This plate is in the best shape I've seen yet. It has a patent date of May ? (the rest is rusted away). The measurements are 7 1/2 X 10 inches.

 

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[Davers]

Man those things are heavy ....

A few years back there were small piles of these ,spikes and some type of U iron attachment pieces .
That I grabbed and took to the scrap yard (@ 10c a pound) weight added up quickly.
I did notice on some of the plates like yours , it was marked with some writing that I can not recall but the year was something like 1936. Then I kinda felt bad scrapping them. But there were piles & piles of them.

Eventually the scrap yard stopped taking them, saying they were RR property..
I suppose the RR did not care about them ,cause they let the lay there and in the creeks since the trac was replaced in the begin-1980 s & the reuse of steel was not worth it.
Now as of 2 years ago I noticed the piles were all gone , I guess the RR got smart.
I'm sure theres still plates etc, buried down the embankments along either side of the small 7 mile spur.

Funny I always thought if I lived in 'THE Hood' I could put the plates into the walls ,esp, around my kid's rooms.
"Just a thought"
They may not be worth much but there still cool if you like that sort of thing. I wish I had kept 1 or 2 of the marked pieces.

 

[Neildo85]

Man those things are heavy ....

A few years back there were small piles of these ,spikes and some type of U iron attachment pieces .
That I grabbed and took to the scrap yard (@ 10c a pound) weight added up quickly.
I did notice on some of the plates like yours , it was marked with some writing that I can not recall but the year was something like 1936. Then I kinda felt bad scrapping them. But there were piles & piles of them.

Eventually the scrap yard stopped taking them, saying they were RR property..
I suppose the RR did not care about them ,cause they let the lay there and in the creeks since the trac was replaced in the begin-1980 s & the reuse of steel was not worth it.
Now as of 2 years ago I noticed the piles were all gone , I guess the RR got smart.
I'm sure theres still plates etc, buried down the embankments along either side of the small 7 mile spur.

Funny I always thought if I lived in 'THE Hood' I could put the plates into the walls ,esp, around my kid's rooms.
"Just a thought"
They may not be worth much but there still cool if you like that sort of thing. I wish I had kept 1 or 2 of the marked pieces.

Yeah, being from my hometown's depot I like to collect them and may give some of the nicer pieces to the local historical society museum.

 

[Davers]

VERY COOL!
Good Luck Out There.
Davers