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I'm glad I "reopened" this long ago dormant thread!

More good info! Some details admittedly went over my head - but I'm learning.

Thanks!

Thanks guys for the great info! My son and I both learned something new today! I'm still amazed rail can last so long. As a kid I remember seeing a set of indentations on this section of track where a locomotive had apparently spun its wheels on the rail. It actually peeled a thin layer of rail off ...

Thanks for all the great info. After posting the question on this old thread I realized I should start a new thread. I posted pictures here of the rail and a late 1930s tie plate:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... &e=1161724

Recently while walking with my son along the tracks near my grandparents' former home (NYC then PC then CR now CSX) near Avon, IN we noticed some of the rails were stamped LACKAWANNA 1949. The rails were in good shape and this section of track (the spur that connects it to the former PRR to Chicago)...

Reviving a long dead thread with a question I hope you can answer. Recently while walking with my son along the tracks near my grandparents' former home (NYC then PC then CR now CSX) near Avon, IN we noticed some of the rails were stamped LACKAWANNA 1949. The rails were in good shape and this sectio...