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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (51603)	6/1/2000 1:35:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

>>I am hereby converting to the Ishian catechism of tie splitter induced bending.<< The part I am missing here is how spikes get bent that we are pulling out of the plates. From intact spur sections. I can understand how spikes would get bent getting ripped up when a tie is halved and shoved apart, but these spikes are still in the ties, and are bent. When they come out. I don't know if they leave the spikes along the track, but I'll bet they don't. No way. That doesn't mean some aren't left/lost, but in my guess these spikes we are finding have come loose. I THINK, that the spikes on this side spur by the mill are all the spikes originally installed on the rail. It just isn't that old. So anything would have happened to the spikes in installation or while they were in the tie. Nothing else has happened to them. When would it? When ties get ripped out and replaced, that's a different thing. Then I would think they're taking the spikes with them, because they're not going to leave them by the track. No way. But you still might find some. I'm going to photograph old and new ties. Got em both within .3 miles. I bet there are NO spikes by the new section, but we'll see.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (51603)	6/1/2000 2:08:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Okay Investigators, ~ UN-IDENTIFIED BRONZE OBJECT Ht: 10 3/4" Wide: 5 7/8 Deep: 3" Wall on sides: 3/4 to 7/8 thick Wall of ellipse section: 9/16ths thick Weighs 12 lbs? front: teleport.com teleport.com top: teleport.com engraving: teleport.com I can' remember where I got this, but location gave no clues to its use. It looks like someone was practicing with an engraver, because it's a list of names and capital letters, some repeated. I think they just picked a handy pc to practice on and the two are un-related. But Croc points some sims to a printing process. This is very heavy for bronze, which is used mostly in my experience as a wear surface for bearings and shafts and stuff. But it doesn't show use or machining for much of anything. Total, total mystery so far. I might guess a piece of a warship, or locomotive, but still can't guess a function. I worked on a steam locomotive (The Bicentennial one) and remember no such part, but that doesn't mean anything. Also, might have been a half-machined reject-part, that never saw its final configuration. I know I could go to a machine shop and get clues or an answer, but.... This one really tweaks me.