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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by ValleyX Goodness, I should have expanded and given the entire explanation, there's really no mystery. There's no doubt that you're seeing what you're seeing but that rail could have come from anywhere. That isn't the original rail that was laid THERE in 1940. When these railroads abandon lines, take up track and replace it with welded rail, or replace old rail with new, they weld it up and take it someplace else. N&W and Southern have abandoned a lot of railroad that had perfectly good rail, I recall seeing entire rail trains with trees and weeds growing up in it when they ripped up most of the Cloverleaf between Frankfort, IN, and St. Louis, rail that was bound for the welding plant in Atlanta. Somewhere, that rail is an NS mainline today. I would imagine that a lot of the old Maumee District west of Toledo and Gary District between Montpelier, OH, and Chicago are somewhere else today, too. [/quote] Oh, ok..It just seems peculiar to (inexperianced) me, that they would have putt "undesireable" rail down as part of a right of way improvement on a main line, if "open hearth" is really that undesireable.
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