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-=> MICHAEL LOO wrote to RUTH HANSCHKA <=-

 > > Are you allowed to scavenge from not so
 > > abandoned track?

 > Technically no, but if you find a rotten tie and report it in, I don't
 > think anyone's going to yell about removing metal bits that were no longer
 > connected to anything and that the railroad can't reuse.

 ML> I'm sort of surprised that all removable metal
 ML> wasn't removed for scrap, either by the rightful
 ML> owners or by the scavenging public.

I'm not. Pulling spikes from ties requires a fair amount of "sweat
equity". When the Baltimore and Ohio railroad abandoned a stretch of
it's right-of-way between Springfield and Taylorville Illinois a group
of "forward thinking citizens" decided it would make an excellent (if
lengthy) bicycle trail. 

The railroad had pulled up the rails behind itself and sold them for
scrap. But all the cross-ties, many with spikes and plates still in
place were left behind. Clearing those away was the seconf most costly
part of the project .... after the asphalt paving.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Fred Harvey Railroad Coleslaw
 Categories: Salads, Greens, Vegetables
      Yield: 18 Servings
 
      3 lb Thin shredded cabbage
      1 lg Bell pepper; fine diced
      2 lg Onions; chopped fine
      2 lg Carrots; shredded
      1 c  Sugar

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      1 c  Oil
      1 c  Cider vinegar
      2 tb Sugar
      1 ts Salt
      1 tb Celery seed
 
  Heat to boiling oil, vinegar, 2 tablespoons sugar, salt
  and celery seed. In large bowl combine cabbage, pepper,
  onion, carrots and mix with 1 cup sugar.
  
  Immediately pour hot dressing over vegetables.
  
  Chill overnight.
  
  RECIPE FROM: http://www.cooks.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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