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Object Type
Track ComponentH&FRHS Catalog ID
21.11.07Date or Period
c.1940sLocation
Lewistown, MarylandCredit Line
Beckley's Camping CenterEarliest Known Owner
H&FRHS, Inc.Dimensions
3 3/4" L, 1 1/2"wStorage Location
Flat File CabinetDetails
This portion of a track bolt or rail joint bolt was discovered at the site of Lewistown’s primary station stop and passing track. Society volunteers dug the bolt from the site of the passing track while surveying the property with metal detectors with permission of the property owner.
This bolt would be used to hold a track joint bar or “fishplate” to either side of the rail’s tall thin “web” where the end of two pieces of rail met. It was cut from its nut and left behind most likely when the rails were removed in the late 1950s.
More Images of Track Component 21.11.07
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- The Hagerstown & Frederick Railway Thurmont Division once passed here with primary route and passing track once traveling on either side of the power pole seen in the foreground. Two H&FRHS volunteers examine a location farther along the H&F Right of Way in Lewistown. In the foreground can be seen a track bolt on the left and a piece of metal believed to be from a railcar on the right both in the holes in which they were discovered.
