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Re: (erielack) Erie Mileposts

However since it's concrete, I would dig it up as deep as I could go untill
I hit the base of it, and see if I couldn't break it off there...  chances
are it has some steel in it, so either way it's a long hard job.   But if
you chipped off the concrete on the bottom 4-5 inches and cut the steel,
you could then reinstall it on your own poured foot and have the cut marks
still buried below the surface -

Bill K.

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> From: Ken <"lackawanna_@_iname.com">
> To: Glenn <"wisconsinandiowarrco_@_yahoo.com">; ELHS LIST
<"erielack_@_internexus.net">
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie Mileposts
> Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 2:34 AM
> 
> Glenn,
> Some months ago, you asked about moving a concrete milepost and whistle
> post.  Our track and signal supervisor advises that there is about as
much
> concrete below ground as there is above, and that those things weigh
> several hundred pounds.  If you have a crane or a burro, you might be
able
> to move it!
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
> At 11:52 AM 7/21/99 -0400, Glenn wrote:
> >There are several of the former Erie concrete milepost and whistle
> >signs remaining in the Decatur, IN area (including two of the concrete
> >pbone box/wasp nest structures).  One milepost marker in particular is
> >in a person's backyard that borders the ROW through town (they didn't
> >seem to move it there - from the way the grass is grown around it it
> >looks like maybe that family backyard may have been extended a few feet
> >closer to the ROW over the years, after they single-tracked it).  My
> >uncle has contacts with the owner of the property (he knows almost
> >everybody in that burg) and they may be willing to sell the milepost to
> >me.  It's pretty certain that CR, now CSX/NS isn't gonna care as it has
> >no bearing on the current trackage (funny - in that town the N&W line
> >just south of the EL main was the former NKP and former Clover Leaf
> >before that for which my relatives worked, and those tracks were
> >pulled-up last summer; now the NS returns via the old Conrail, ex-PC,
> >ex-Pennsy route from Ft. Wayne).
> >
> >I am thinking seriously about pursuing the purchase of the artifact
> >once I get into my new house next spring (what a nice outdoor
> >ornament).  I figure better that than eventually seeing it busted-up
> >into gravel.  This particular milepost is less than 4 ft. high
> >(approximating from memory). Might anyone know how much something like
> >that may weigh, and how far down in the ground it might extend?  I
> >wouldn't want to offer to buy it when I'd have to dig a foxhole in
> >getting it out.
> >
> >Glenn
> >ELHS #2655
> >
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