007tallguy
Elite Member
hi all, i was at an old train station today obtaining permission to hunt the property and the man there thought i might know what this stuff was from.
i personally don't really know, but i told him that i would post some photos in the best place for possible answers.... right here!
alrighty, this non-metallic stuff really resembles pottery, but the texture is very coarse, almost like cement. in fact, one layer in the middle is cement colored. the red colored portion seems similar to "brick" material, the stuff is from something that was round in shape and it even seems to have been shellacked on both the inside and on the outside.
the smaller piece has a rounded edge, almost as if from an old bowl or clay pot, the larger piece is quite thick in comparison and might be from the bottom part of whatever it was.
one other possible clue, and this is where the "steam train" part comes in: pieces of this were found alongside an old coal storage shed at the train station. we're thinking maybe the old boilers were "lined" with a fire box made from this stuff? does anyone out there know trains and steam engines and did this come from one of them and where would it have been used in the engine?
any ideas in solving this mystery for us...??? that's a quarter in the photos for a size reference.
thanks,
Pete
i personally don't really know, but i told him that i would post some photos in the best place for possible answers.... right here!
alrighty, this non-metallic stuff really resembles pottery, but the texture is very coarse, almost like cement. in fact, one layer in the middle is cement colored. the red colored portion seems similar to "brick" material, the stuff is from something that was round in shape and it even seems to have been shellacked on both the inside and on the outside.
the smaller piece has a rounded edge, almost as if from an old bowl or clay pot, the larger piece is quite thick in comparison and might be from the bottom part of whatever it was.
one other possible clue, and this is where the "steam train" part comes in: pieces of this were found alongside an old coal storage shed at the train station. we're thinking maybe the old boilers were "lined" with a fire box made from this stuff? does anyone out there know trains and steam engines and did this come from one of them and where would it have been used in the engine?
any ideas in solving this mystery for us...??? that's a quarter in the photos for a size reference.
thanks,
Pete
i'll check into that and see if that roof ever had that kind of tile on it. (something tells me no, but anyway...)
the actual rails are no longer there, but they were on the other side of the buildings.
