@Tom Tee posted:As a child I was fascinated with the unexpected ways little used RR tracks would pop up in some of the most surprising locations. I remember looking out the car window for the flat line and row of trees on the horizon indicating the presence of an old rail line.....
We did the same thing camping in Northcentral Pennsylvania in the 60s and 70s. My father mapped out the S-curve taken by a grassy trail that wound through the woods near our tent, and then proved that it had been a logging railroad when we found railroad spikes and other items. Once there was a rail, overlooked by a long-ago track gang that moved on in their haste. Eventually we discovered the book series about the logging railroads of PA and found the old traces everywhere, slowly dissolving into the undergrowth. In a light snow we looked off into the forest and saw just lines of snow matching the bumps where ties had supported geared locomotives decades earlier.
