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I found a pair of 1st class needle-nose pliers some UP worker must have dropped, and some "Work Safely" UP-logo work gloves. I find hardhats from time-to-time, but they are usually broken or scuffed up very badly. I see fish plates and tie-plates all the time, and spikes. Sometimes I'll see a long 18" or 24" tie-plate in a jungle, being used as a griddle over the fire.
Around the Houston area we see hundreds and hundreds of blue plastic water bottles. It's real hot here in the summer, and the train crews drink a lot of water and then pitch the bottles all over the place.
The grossest thing I've found turned out to be a very large, dead German Shepherd wrapped up in plastic. I thought it was a dead body and called the cops. They were kind of pissed, but all I could think about was that maybe it was a dead kid. One cop told me "I would have been suspicious too, with it all wrapped up like that." It stunk bigtime like death. Gross.
those water bottles are left by workers.the train companys buy tons of water for the workers to have when theyre working!ive found all kinds of shit!one time i found some ones clothes in the back of a hopper.
i found a large scap piece of a boxcar laying on the side of the tracks. how it got there i have no clue. railroad water bottles. clothes dead shit buckets of spikes wrenches shovels and othere dumb trash.
when i go to the yards, it pretty dark, but when i bench
oh man, do i find things. i found bikes, worker gloves,
beer bottles, and are you ready, one time i found.........
a set of toy tracks (the ones that come with toy train sets)!!!!
this wasn't at a yard but on tracks nevertheless...i went down to flick a wall that had some older stuff on it, and there were the remains of a deer that had been smashed to bits. also there were some 3rd rail covers that read "caution: 700 volts" laying around...i wanted to take a few but then decided not to since i have enough junk in my room as it is.
To day while walking down the tracks i didn't find an object but found my self in some trouble... i was walking down the tracks just doing some exploring, in this ghetto neighborhood nothing but homeless people and gang bangers, i dont like going there but there is so much fr8 action going on and its a great place the catch dope flix well any ways i was walking down a pretty long stretch of 3 track main line with factories and junk yards on one side and trees and a scrap yard on the other. i see a group of people up head, i was goin to turn around and walk back but i was like fuck that. i took my snow hat off and put a big rock in it. As i got close i see its 4 black guys all about 20 years old or so drinking some colt 45 or what ever they drink. with my snow hat with the rock in it i walk past them one guy says "yo nigaa you lost or some thing" i just kept on walk with out looking back acting like i didn't hear them, then i hear " hey motherfucka we talkin to you" i turn and say I'm just going home taking a short cut. they stop and start to walk towards me so i start to walk away they start yelling stop get back here we just want to talk at you for a minute. fellin I was about to me mugged or beaten I took off, 2 guys chased me the other two stayed back, I was running as hard as I could, I was thinking in the back of my mind not to trip over a railroad tie or something. I ran through some trees and bushes and up this hill that lead to more tracks thats when they gave up on chasing me. I still kept on running in till I got to a small restaurant. I could not believe what happened or that I out ran 2 black guys. And to all of you that say I should have stayed and fought them off I laugh at you. Thanks for listening to me sound like a pussy
i found something very cool today while walking towards two cars that were coupled together off the ways of the yard...at first i thought it was litter someone had left of empty beer bottles and cases...upon closer inspection i saw that it was a case of six packs of corona...i didn't count but i'm guessing there were about 8 six packs of corona...i guess they fell off a load or something because they were right on the tracks...i grabbed one and walked off.....what a find.....
Originally posted by kaesthebluntedwonder i found something very cool today while walking towards two cars that were coupled together off the ways of the yard...at first i thought it was litter someone had left of empty beer bottles and cases...upon closer inspection i saw that it was a case of six packs of corona...i didn't count but i'm guessing there were about 8 six packs of corona...i guess they fell off a load or something because they were right on the tracks...i grabbed one and walked off.....what a find.....
One time me and by cousin were hitting some hoppers and there all the mexican rail bums and they were watching us get up and shit.When I took pics I mangaed to step in one of there do-do pies.Awsome.
All I've ever found was a little spanish comic book called El Vaquero - the cover looked like it would be dirty, but the inside was normal. I don't even know spanish, but I'm keeping it anyway.
man ya fuckers struck gold. the wierdest thing that i've found was a dirty ass pairs of underwear. they were a weather ravaged pairs of ex-white briefs. i was going to just walk pass them until my boy pissed me of. that's when i decided kick it 3rd grade style with"the old pick up something gross with a stick and chase the the person who pissed you off" manuever. hahaha that was funny unitl he hit me i head wit a rock cause i would stop chasing him.
-Gotta have my super golden crisps
did you put in the fog lights
-cause i forgot to put the foglights in
this wasnt in a yard but i found a wommans wet dirty undergarmets on the street...and my friend picked it up and put it on my head...i prolly caught some sorta disease
i found a "brake manual" one day, empty spray cans from toys, tons and tons of blue water bottles during the summer, one day me and a friend where walking around this yard and he found a baby frog, he took it to the other end of the yard and let it go, dead jack rabbits, bum clothes, i even found a sketch from a toy around the way, empty 40 bottles that writers leave around(i think that is as bad as spray cans)
anyone ever loose anything in the yard?
Tools and gloves -
12-05-2001, 07:01 AM
hahaha 
