MTtrashdigger
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..... If you are caught trespassing they will prosecute you to the fullest extent. Some of them even have their own sworn law enforcement officers.....
Great pictures !
And .... ironically ... you were walking all around there, to take those pictures. Doh !
When I was a kid, we walked along side RR tracks, and crossed over them on our shortcut to school . (and made smashed pennies, etc...). Gasp, I didn't realize we could have been prosecuted to the "fullest extent".
If I was you, I'd just hit them. You're certainly welcome to knock yourself silly to get some corporate official, 3 states away, to give you a "yes". But odds are, your request would go un-answered, or they'd give you the obligatory safe "no".
And let's see if my prediction comes true : Considering that you're on a forum where some people think you need permission to hunt park sandboxes, you will no doubt fetch dire sounding answers. And ... ironically ... none of them will catch the irony that you were walking all around there (aka "trespassing") to take those pictures. Yet the rationale will be, that md'ing is different. Because it amounts to "stealing" and all sorts of evil mayhem.
I doubt you could find any RR official to care one iota about a mercury or barber dime. But .... sure .... technically it belongs to them.
This is one of those "does anyone REALLY care" sort of questions, rather than a "technically can I do it" question. Because if it's "... technically..." then sure: Don't do it (and don't jaywalk or spit on sidewalks either) . But if you meant "realistically", then .... just do it.
I also walked along the RR tracks when I was a kid, there was pretty busy line that ran right behind my grandmothers house. We carried guns and hunted pheasants and rabbits in the right of way all the way up to Sep. 11, 2001, and waved to the conductors as they rumbled by us. ....
.... Here is the official stance you will be trespassing. They do not give permission for anyone for anything period end of story don't even try to ask....
.... But what I see from your pictures have at it as long as your not on or close to the tracks. I would Md it ..... Be safe and have fun.
When I was a kid back I the 70’s heck we’d walk the tracks looking for insulators and Thomas Edison electric battery oil bottles. Later, working my truck down the right of way trapping muskrats. Yep, conductor would wave.
I wouldn’t try it nowadays.
i hear you Tom, but as youngsters, some of us got away with stuff that today as an adult we’d be prosecuted for.I bet that ... nowadays .... kids still walk the tracks looking for insulators and un-burnt flares, etc... And still trap muskrats, and the conductor still waves.
And... heck .... even people who might (gasp) walk along the RR track to take photographs.
Durned all them miscreants !
i hear you Tom, but as youngsters, some of us got away with stuff that today as an adult we’d be prosecuted for.