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On 09/13/2016 2:47 PM, Ignoramus16559 wrote:
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Rails are not easy to come by.

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In large quantity and metro areas, probably not. There's no shortage of
scrap pieces laying around in various places around here, though, left
over from abandoned sidings, etc., etc., etc., ... for most it would
take gear the average homeowner doesn't have, though, granted. I drug a
20-ft chunk home w/ the frontend loader on the tractor from about 3 mi
away a few years ago...haven't done a thing with it yet, though. The
short sections am using have been around the place since I was a kid in
the 50s and no telling how long grandfather had had 'em before that.