Train tracks

I have never had any problems. Mix spikes, plates, nuts and bolts in with regular steel to get the weight. The scrap companies REALLY REALLY REALLY don't care. If you haul in a rail, yeah they are going to say something to cover their ass, but they won't look to hard at a load of steel. At my yard, they look out the window and assume it's steel if your going across the scale (CU,AL the rest goes out back to another building), I always throw my big stuff then dump my buckets at the bottom of the pile. Hell, I brought them a Lincoln Continental in pieces. As I threw the pieces off, the immediately buried them. THEY WANT THE METAL AS BAD AS YOU DO.

When I get bored, I walk some rails and pick up spikes, bolts and other iron on either side of the ballast. When asked what I was doing by a local police officer, I told him I was collecting scrap iron and showed him the bucket. He said it was ok as long as I wasn't pulling the spikes out of the ties. It was very hard not to chuckle....