Do any of you collect rail?
From: Wendell Huffman
I've just acquired 50-60 brand sections of 19th century iron and steel rail for the Nevada State Railroad Museum and am trying to identify a few of the rolling mills. I have some 35-pound (or so) iron rail branded MR, believed to be from the Nevada Central. And some CRMCo steel rail rolled in 1883. This was found close to the Central Pacific, but there is nothing identified on the CP in the 1887 report (which lists every foot of CP rail by maker and weight!) which can pass for C.R.M.Co. I wonder if it was UPRR, but have yet to find much about UP rail.
— Wendell
[from the R&LHS Newsgroup.]
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:21 AM
2 Comments:
Chris Graves' notes indicate:
"Cumberland Rolling Mill Co., 1883.
CRM Co is Cumberland Rolling Mill, Cumberland, Maryland; rail found along the old grade."
From: "Wendell Huffman"
What I am looking for ... is corroboration that the CPRR had any rail from Cumberland Rolling Mill – or, for that matter, any rail from any other of the several mills with the CRMCo initials.
—Wendell
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