dpendzic: Steel date nail is hammered into end of tie to show when it was accepted by railroad. It was about 8-10d shank diameter, by about 1.5" long, with a head roughly the size of one on a "tar paper nail" (slightly thicker), and had a 2 digit number in relief (raised) on the head for the year. I've seen about 50 or so of them-earliest was 22 IIRC. Some dates were not real clear as they were "peened" with the hammer at installation. Most ties also had an "S" shaped piece of steel about 1/8"tk. x 1/2-5/8" wd x about 6" overall height x ~4" overall width hammered into each end to minimize splitting as it aged.
This post was edited by smallercrawler at 13:39:52 05/03/14.
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