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Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 9:14:59 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Well, Cap was talking about the Union Army camps and Jamie talking about pontils.  Got me to thinking about the old train trestle.  Never been used in my lifetime, so I'm not real sure about it's history.  No railroad bed going into or out from the trestle.  The crossties that held the train on on the ground and there are no rails.  Could be one of them that Sherman destroyed, but he probably would have burned the trestle also.  So I made my way down there on Friday.  Played hookey from work and went exploring.  Felt like a kid again, like Tom Saywer and Huck Finn on an adventure.  "These silent giants rise from the forest floor. Once they supported the mighty locomotives that brought goods to this small rural Georgia town.  A simple reminder  of the bygone era of the powerful steam locomotives". Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. Post #: 1

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 9:20:21 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline More Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 2

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 9:25:03 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline This one's got a nice growth of cow itch vine on top.  I need to climb up there one day to see if anything is under all that vine.  This is the only one with a crossbeam stii intact. Attachment (1) < Message edited by logueb -- 8/16/2009 9:30:29 PM > _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 3

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 9:36:38 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline In the middle of the creek is also a  short set of beams.  Must of been for wagon and foot traffic.  You wouldn't catch me walking under no steam locomotive. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 4

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 9:39:04 PM    mr.fred Posts: 2369 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline You have some neat turf to roam around in.  I have and old trolley track a few miles from my house i need to check out-----no tracks----just the mounds left. _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 5

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 9:47:51 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Time to get to looking for bottles.  Hmmm, where to start.  What about these cypress knee with a trestle beam lodged in them ?  Little too snakey for me. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 6

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:11:07 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Well, we could noodle for some catfish or bream while we are here.  You go first Rick, then I'll go.  Ease you hand into the caves under the roots real slow.  The fish will be resting and it's dark so they can't see.  When you feel something in your hand clamp down rear hard.  But remember, if it's round and scaley it aint no eel so let go.           Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 7

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:13:31 PM    mr.fred Posts: 2369 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline That picture is enough to scare the Poo out of me _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 8

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:18:53 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Thanks Mr. Fred.  Any place that someone could have thrown anything out is a good place to check out.  If those trolley beds had ditches it's a good bet bottles were thrown into them.  Well, I started at the tressle in the creek.  Someone on the forum said that the trestle beams caught bottles.  I drug all of the limbs out of the way and started raking through the sand.  I'm using the low beam to stack all the finds on. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 9

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:24:05 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I start out finding  coke and pepsi return bottles, a sprite and tab ndnr, a federal law prohibits whiskey, then enough nd beer to start a brewery.  By the end of the dig that whole beam is covered with bottles. Attachment (1) < Message edited by logueb -- 8/16/2009 10:27:18 PM > (in reply to logueb) Post #: 10

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:31:38 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Forgot to imbed that time.  Here's the closeup. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 11

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:42:34 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline This dial-up is killing me.  It's taking forever to get this dig loaded up.  Well anyway, underneath the first layer of logs and bricks and soda and beer, and tons of sand I start finding these rusty blobs.  I got and idea what they are. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 12

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:47:42 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12309 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: offline Cool post, Logue!! Don't know much about any of this but I'm enjoying!! (in reply to logueb) Post #: 13

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 10:51:39 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline A couple of good whacks and all that rust falls off leaving a rather skinny railroad spike.  Eventually there would not be any base metal left.  Instant artifact.  Looks like something in one of them museums. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 14

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 11:00:52 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline The hole is getting deeper, but I don't believe that I'm anywhere near the bottom yet.  This thing is under all that sand and weighs a ton.  I've heard that towns used hollowed logs as water lines.  Anyway, ain't no snake in this one. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 15

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 11:06:16 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Further down in the sand this thing comes up.  Want to take a gander to what it is? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 16

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 11:13:20 PM    athometoo Posts: 1753 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline A HUB FOR A WAGON WHEEL OR CART . ? (in reply to logueb) Post #: 17

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 11:13:52 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Yep, it's a wagon wheel hub. Wouldn't you just want to believe that Ol' Sherman broke a wagon wheel crossing the creek going into town. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 18

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 11:22:14 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Seems like Ol Johnny Reb done beat Uncle Billy to the bridges and trestles. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 19

RE: Old Train Trestle - 8/16/2009 11:23:15 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9807 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline Awesome post...My kind of place.                                   Joe _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to logueb) Post #: 20

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