Cotton spikes

Techno-dummy here. Not sure how to find your e-mail.

I think with this new site to have to private message rather than email like the "olden days".

Click on their profile pic and "start a conversation".

O--IC

Thanks

Hey, Jules J.

Better hang on to those railroad spikes. They are going the way of the buggy whip. They are now using screw-in type spikes. UP has a track a quarter mile from my house that runs right along four of my farms. All the new rail-to-tie fasteners are screwed into the tie by a nifty hydraulic-driven head. Forwards/backwards---in a flash.

Holy Cow, post: 335073, member: 50 wrote: Hey, Jules J.

Better hang on to those railroad spikes. They are going the way of the buggy whip. They are now using screw-in type spikes. UP has a track a quarter mile from my house that runs right along four of my farms. All the new rail-to-tie fasteners are screwed into the tie by a nifty hydraulic-driven head. Forwards/backwards---in a flash.

This is terrible news!

Holy Cow, post: 335073, member: 50 wrote: Hey, Jules J.

Better hang on to those railroad spikes. They are going the way of the buggy whip. They are now using screw-in type spikes. UP has a track a quarter mile from my house that runs right along four of my farms. All the new rail-to-tie fasteners are screwed into the tie by a nifty hydraulic-driven head. Forwards/backwards---in a flash.

Does this mean that surveyors in the future will be asking "What is a railroad spike?"

Holy Cow, post: 335073, member: 50 wrote: Hey, Jules J.

Better hang on to those railroad spikes. They are going the way of the buggy whip. They are now using screw-in type spikes. UP has a track a quarter mile from my house that runs right along four of my farms. All the new rail-to-tie fasteners are screwed into the tie by a nifty hydraulic-driven head. Forwards/backwards---in a flash.

OH MAN! Thanks for the heads up. Screw in fasteners? I may have a place for them! B-)

C Billingsley, post: 335123, member: 1965 wrote: Does this mean that surveyors in the future will be asking "What is a railroad spike?"

There are approximately 233,000 miles of railroad track in the United States.

I think you and I will be traversing the Heavens by that time. 😀

There will be quite a resale market for rusty spikes.

Holy Cow, post: 334798, member: 50 wrote: O--IC

Thanks

I reckon I"m a Teckno-dummy also, can't find the email address. I started a conversation but didn't hear anything.
I prefer the old email way of contacting. I kinda know how it works.
I'm not such a Teckno-dummy that I prefer snail mail, though.

I 'll take 1/4 ton , please send me details if you still have some . Thanks 858-467-9110 Fred

Hey, I need 200!

What a trip down memory lane!!!

Plenty of posters who no longer post plus a few who are walking the streets of gold.

This reminds me that I should go down the road about 5 miles to the cotton gin and see if I can get a few as I am out.

Wow, this thread goes back to the days when rest areas had hitching posts!