@Bill Park posted:This New Haven whistle marker has been on my front lawn since the early 80's. It resided on the New Haven Maybrook line until that track was pulled up. During the time things were being demolished, something hit this marker and snapped it off and it was laying along side the gutted right-of-way. I was on a sales call down in the Newburg NY area and when we went over the Maybrook line that morning, just beyond the western side of the bridge, we noticed a train pulling up the rails. On our return late in the day, we investigated some of what had been done and discovered the marker snapped off and lying in the weeds. It weighed a lot and another sales rep and myself struggled to get it in my car. I can only imagine the multitude of engines it signaled to whistle. Its a great reminder of the railroad I grew up seeing and that got me so interested in railroads.
Awesome story Bill. My uncle and a friend retrieved 2 posts from the Midland mainline in Douglas MA when that was being torn up back in the late 60s. My cousin recently sold the family house and let me take the post from his front yard. It now guards my chicken coop. I cant tell if yours is granite or cement but mine is cement and very heavy too. Its planted 2 feet in the ground.
