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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Well, when Richard Shell and I bought our signals about 1996-97, the local signal folks had the option of selling them off as a lot, not as individual signals. That option was taken away a couple of years later. We purchased a load of stuff, that was piled on the ground at Troutville, Virginia, an area about 30' x 80', and it was a bunch of stuff including cases, poles, relay boxes, etc. etc. Now keep in mind these things were cut down, not taken down with intent of reusing them, torched, broken and beaten, on already old worn out materials. It took us several weeks of our evenings, as both of us have real life jobs, and a number of flatbed truckloads of hauling to get all that we wanted to save out of there. We were out working under the light of a full moon at times. We decided that we had all that we needed, and all that remained was a bunch of broken cases, damaged parts beyond saving and pure junk, so that is what we did, we sold it for scrap and it was hauled away. All told, with what we kept and scrapped, we figured that it came to about 23 tons of materials. We mainly ran out of time to get the stuff off the property, we'd have liked to save a bit more, but our deadline was on us, and we were both exhausted.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I don't believe NS wants to deal with any individuals, only scrappers, it is just too much of a hassle for NS. Depending on the scrappers, you may be able to buy something from them, depending on where, and how you can handle it.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I suspect some parts may be occasionally saved by NS for keeping the remaining CPLs working as necessary, but for the most part, the stuff is beaten, bashed and a lot of work to bring back to life. All of the signal faceplates were bent up, some torn and ripped, brackets broken, ladders cut off, lamp fixtures broken, lens gone or destroyed. Again, I warn you these things are very large, much larger than they appear to be, a faceplate is about 52 inches across, poles vary in height but you can easily figure 15 to 30 feet tall, a complete signal head weighs in at least a few hundred pounds depending on the number of lamps, poles might be as much as 500-600. Each individual lamp fixture weighs about 25 pounds! I'm glad I have one, but like a number of other things in my life, I'd never do it again.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ken Miller</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div><div>On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:50 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"> <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"> <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Copperplate Gothic Light"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Copperplate Gothic Light";color:blue">I know I would! 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