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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".

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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.

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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.

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You have some neat turf to roam around in[sm=tongue.gif]. I have and old trolley track a few miles from my house i need to check out-----no tracks----just the mounds left.
 

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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.

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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.[:D][:D]

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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.

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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.
 

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