Thanks for Searching

It's not uncommon for a poster asking the same old familiar questions to be directed to the search function and sometimes that person may say "I tried to search, but couldn't find what I needed." Well, I want to tell you all about a very positive experience I've just had using the search function. I picked up a box full of railroad spikes (maybe 50 pounds) from the curb this weekend and got to wondering if I really could scrap them without hassles. I remembered reading about how protective the railroads are of their "stuff" on the right-of-way, and I couldn't prove that I hadn't taken them from railroad property, so... Let me tell you, a simple search for "railroad spikes" yielded a load of informative threads that both put me at ease (too small an amount for the yard to likely fuss about) and presented other ideas about railroad scrap, gaining access, etc.

I've not seen the search function praised here very much so I want to offer thanks to the forum admins for having put a good one in place, and thanks to everyone who has had anything to say about those railroad spikes!

I had about 350+ pounds of them and around 100# of plates. I was thinking the same way you were, but another scrapper was driving by and they were sitting in my front yard so he stopped and I ended up selling them for $40 haha and he even loaded them himself. This was before I had ever been to a yard so had I known that if its steel they don't care, it wouldn't have been an issue at the one I went to.

You should be able to sell them for at least scrap value...probably more on Craigslist.

I've found that when using search functions on websites very often one has to know how to ask the right question to get the answer you are looking for.