interesting find at the depot

[cassiekarimom]

I found the item below in between the line of trees a few feet from the road, I seem to find a lot of train items there, I plan on asking if the origional train tracks were there, the item in photos 1 and 2 says "THE NO 5 NEW BARBER WPO BY ADVANCE CAR MOVER CO. APPLETON WISCONSON", the item in photo 3 says patd 9-10-12, the 4th photo shows how I found the items in the photos were hooked together when I found them, I looked it up and it said it was a hand held rail car mover, I am guessing they used it if they need to move a rail car backwards or forwards a few feet.

 

[cassiekarimom]

here is a photo of how it should go together.

 

[PAshooter]

That is really cool...I find lots of railroad stuff in my yard too. Good stuff.

 

[cassiekarimom]

Right now the people who run the depot are trying to make it look like it did when the train ran through, they stopped running the train and took up the tracks in the 1930's for the last few years they have been raising money so they can buy the parts of the tracks and have been putting the tracks together, they still have a ways to go, I think they are trying to have it go around in a big circle like a toy train track does, I plan on asking them if they would like to have some of the origional train parts I have found, it would be less they would have to buy, and I'm planning on seeing if they want the rail car mover part for display.