Old rails...new hobby

My interest have sort of been moving beyond just trains and abandoned 
railroad lines and onto the date on tracks on top of it.  I've been making a 
mental note to pay attention and watch for dates when i go out.  If it strikes
my interest will photograph. I was stoked on the 1926 rail i noticed up by
Lewistown.  I wonder if there is any older in the area somewhere?  Okay I've
crossed over from just awkward to weird now it's offical. ha.

 1926:  Rail was dated 1926 on a siding north of Lewistown, Illinois which
was CB&Q-BN and now  BNSF.  That siding  looks in terrible condition
on the whole thing but a wash out in this one location I noticed a rail from
1926.  There's an old abandoned BN flatcar to the north of it that has been
sitting for years. Not sure if BNSF will ever use it again or bother with 
scrapping.  Probably not anytime soon.






1955:  Havana, Illinois near where I used to work at Intermet is a 1955 rail
and the line is still in use by IMRR who uses BNSF power to deliver Coal
to the Havana Power Plant.  The rails look well used to say the least.






1972 & 1945:  West of Canton lies a 1972 rail and next to it a 1945 one on the active
KJRY line...ex-TP&W.  At Rawalts lies a 1939 rail but didn't photograph it on the same
railline.




1940: (?)   In early 2017 they removed the tracks the line from Canton to 
Farmington and around the Canton depot was a rail from what appeared to be 
1940.

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