There’s 10’s of thousands of dollars of scrap rail just randomly piled up and tossed aside in my area that someone should retrieve for scrap before it becomes inaccessible.
It’s left over from when we had railroads and manufacturing. Sadly, it’s all in China now.
Just last week one of my town’s railroads, abandoned since 1972, was partially torn out.
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I am a bidder on removing the remaining trees and the buried railroad ties.
Where the large green gen-set is was a sidetrack, that ran inside of the brick mill. There was a flour mill and a lumber yard inside all the way up into the 1960’s. It’s now a museum of art.
Where you see the Deere excavator sitting was one of our towns train stations.
The rails were laid from 1899-1901 and abandoned in 1972 due to a massive hurricane (Agnes) which is still holds the number one spot for loss of property in the state of PA’s history.
The rails survived in-tact undamaged in my town, but were so severely damaged about 5 miles away, that the railroad decided they weren’t worth repairing.
IMO, it’s sad to destroy such usable infrastructure. It’s part of our American history and could still be a valuable asset.
