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Old Posted Apr 21, 2009, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by mersar View Post
And a lot of track and ties there were. I drove eastbound through there today and its a solid pile of wooden ties (which aside from being chewed up from getting them out actually looked to be in pretty good condition after being buried for 50 years) for several blocks.
They might have been buried for more than 50 yrs, as it was about 50 yrs ago when the tracks stopped being used but who knows how long the last laid ties had been under the pavement before then.
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