button or cuff link and rail tool

jeweler21 · Jul 16, 2014

I picked up a Teknetics T2 and trying to get used to it. I found a rail tool that I am trying to identify and a nice old button or one side of a cuff link that I am also trying to identify.
I think that the rail tool is one portion of a track lift, it has the numbers PF10 and 8540 on it.
It is 6 1/2" long and approximately four inches deep, the bar is an inch wide and 5/8" thick.
The button is brass front and the back is totally rusted but looks like it was post in the center of the back it is engraved with a five pointed star and a rose. It is 5/8" diameter.

Ahab8 · Jul 16, 2014

That's a gorgeous button! I own a T2 SE and let's just say it's blown me away. The finds I've made in the first 9 months are beyond what I ever imagined I could come up with

dutchtoga · Jul 16, 2014

that button screams to me "The Yellow Rose of Texas" lol nice find.

goober · Jul 16, 2014

the rail tool you refer to is called an ANCHOR it clips on to the rail on either side of the cross tie to keep the rail from running or shrinking thus stopping the ties from getting slanted. i just retired from amtrak after 38 years, used about a gajillion of them. cools buttons though!