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I have a very largwe amount of old, rusty spikes, etc. that I've picked up from trackside, but you find those things along every rail line and I wouldn't consider that theft. I can't see the railroad hiring a guy to go and pick up every last spike laying by the trackside to collect for scrap. I would never take anything that the railroad is using or has stored. I do have a set of crossbucks that my uncle picked up for me that were ery bent out of shape when he got them and even have bullet holes in them. They came from a crossing that was being torn out and he asked the guys who were doign it if he could have them first. He also almost got me a switch pole that was being taken out at the mine he works at. He asked and they almost let him have it, but them changed their mind and decided to keep it for parts. I'd love to own a dwarf signal, but I would never go and actually steam one from the railroad. Why would a railfan actually sabatoge (that's the best word I can think of for the dwarf signal incident) the industry they love so much?
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