I received a conversation piece in the mail yesterday.
An older acquaintance of mine has been cleaning his collection of "stuff" from over the years. He sent me gilded railroad spike with a note stating it came from the University Park Cotton Belt station (at Lovers Lane) and was sold or given away by Neiman Marcus!
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Railroad spike by Neiman Marcus
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Railroad spike by Neiman Marcus
by Dennis H on Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:51 pm
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Re: Railroad spike by Neiman Marcus
by Clyde Howard on Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:06 pm
Now THAT is neat. I have a spike from the Virginia & Trukee, sent by a guy who lives right next to the (abandoned) ROW, and picked up from it. Apparently there are a lot of spikes that weren't picked up when they pulled them to allow removal of the rails when the line wa finally abandoned.
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