What do you think?

[+Phil&Phil2008]

Hi all,

 

Dad and I are thinking of doing our first cache this saturday. As a trade for items in a cache I was thinking of putting in some of my collection from the old Paulenskill railroad line. Having been buried for atleast 50 yrs, it is VERY rusty and I was wondering what you guys (and gals) think of this? It isn't sharp, just rusty, I was thinking they would make great cache items because of the history they carry.

 

Thanks, sorry for the grammar,

 

~Phil

[O-Mega]

That would be ok if you bag the item so it doesn't get all over the rest of the swag. A card with some info on the item would be great too.

[+nekom]

I would love to find such a thing, but then I'm a railfan, so my opinion comes with a lot of bias there

[+Phil&Phil2008]

Good idea! I was thinking of putting a card in about the history.. Separating it completly escaped me though!

 

Thanks!

 

Phil

[+Renegade Knight]

Good idea! I was thinking of putting a card in about the history.. Separating it completly escaped me though!

 

Thanks!

 

Phil

History is dirty and rusty. It does use a lot of baggies.

[+Phil&Phil2008]

haha good point knight!

[+KG1960]

I'm a train nut myself and would find such a thing interesting. Having a note with it saying what and where it came from would be excellent - that would differentiate it from other rusty RR stuff accumulating in my garage.

[crawil]

One of my favorite pieces of swag that we've picked up was a short piece of rusty barbed wire with a tag explaining all about it. Go for it, but be sure to leave something so the uninitialized will know what they are looking at!

[+Phil&Phil2008]

Thanks guys!

[+ironman114]

I don't know about the average cacher but I would love that kind of stuff.

 

I have a cache that takes you to where they filmed the 1961 movie "Ring Of Fire". In the movie they blew up a very tall wooden trestle and dropped the 60 ton steam lokie and 2 passenger cars into the river over 120 feet below.

 

The engine is still there upside down in the river and completely under water except for a short time in August and Sept. when you can see the wheels and pistons. The passenger cars are broke in half and were dragged to shore. You can crawl inside them.

 

Sometimes I leave RR spike I have stamped Ironman114 into and painted gold. Other times I place 16 penny duplex nails I have smashed on some rail tracks from a tower crane on rails I worked with. (Never do tis on real RR tracks!!!) I stamp my nick on these also.

 

I have another near some abandoned track and bridges still left in the woods from a 75 yr old rail line used for logging. They have been abandoned there for 23 years and have trees growing through them now.

[+StarBrand]

That would be ok if you bag the item so it doesn't get all over the rest of the swag. A card with some info on the item would be great too.

Agreed. I too would love to find such items!!

[+doingitoldschool]

I keep a rusty spike from the rail lines where I grew up on my desk at work. I would gladly put one of yours beside it if I was caching in your neck of the woods

[+Annie & PB]

Yep - put it in a little baggie with an attractively presented note/card explaining what it is, and you might have some success. Otherwise someone will think it is junk and CITO it (like me!!!! ) as we are not rail fanatics and would have no idea that it was something important

 

Annie

[+WRASTRO]

Baggie and note with info = cool cache swag. Rusty stuff in cache = rusty stuff in cache = junk for the most part.

[+Knight2000]

Baggies are good. We try to put all of our swag for our new caches in baggies. No moisture as of yet, but no one wants wet swag. I hate that!

 

Great item to leave!

[+Zolgar]

Not a huge fan of trains meself. But I also say for got it, deffinitely. Because while to some it's going to be percieved as junk.. Others will things it's cool.

 

Like the antique barbed wire that I picked up from a cache in NM. So far that's been the coolest thing I've found in a cache.

 

If you can, clean it up some. A touch of light scrubbing and you can get the bad loose rust off.

[+sataraid1]

I have a scrap spike taken from Tennessee Pass on my last trip there, less than a year before they closed the line.

[+briansnat]

By the way there are some pretty good caches along the old Paulinskill Line's former ROW.

[+Dryphter]

Rusty stuff in a cache? Definitely as long as you sharpen it. :-) Adds a bit more of a challenge - potential case of tetnus! Heck, put those rusty, sharp things in a peanut butter jar and sit back and watch the fun.

[+uxorious]

I also like the idea of bagging it and maybe including a card describing what it is.

 

Wonder how many bits and pieces of stuff having interest to collectors, have been tossed because someone didn't know what they were.

 

It is true, caches end up with a lot of trash after a while. However, I do wonder if some of that trash would be a treasure for someone who knows what it is. Bagging and labeling it would go a long way to separate the good from the junk.