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Can any one guess what these are-hint R.R.

jamesp
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Can any one guess what these are-hint R.R. Mar 9, 2015 17:30:45 GMT -5 snowmom likes this

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Mar 9, 2015 15:58:26 GMT -5 gingerkid said:

Enjoying your RR marble finds and interesting thread, jamesp. Haven't ever seen RR 'marbles.' Fascinating stuff and like the signs with them, too.

Never knew anyone that knew anything about those marbles. Must have been 40 years ago when I found a bunch in Lake Lanier.
When I went garnet hunting with broseph82 a few months ago the subject came up.

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Can any one guess what these are-hint R.R. Mar 10, 2015 9:59:04 GMT -5 snowmom likes this

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With RR parts laying on the tracks..I still collect the spikes too-use them when I'm rockhounding.
Once they wear out I just chuck it and get a different one...
As a kid in Montana,we walked the RR tracks everyday and hunted the Montana agate,it was mixed in with the gravel they dumped to make their railroads...
Found pounds of it-sold it all on the side of the roads,by our house..(Mostly tourists) ...

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Can any one guess what these are-hint R.R. Mar 10, 2015 11:02:01 GMT -5 snowmom likes this

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Mar 10, 2015 9:59:04 GMT -5 Fossilman said:

With RR parts laying on the tracks..I still collect the spikes too-use them when I'm rockhounding.
Once they wear out I just chuck it and get a different one...
As a kid in Montana,we walked the RR tracks everyday and hunted the Montana agate,it was mixed in with the gravel they dumped to make their railroads...
Found pounds of it-sold it all on the side of the roads,by our house..(Mostly tourists) ...

Rail road gravel can be like going to the quarry. As are gravel roads. If they won't let you in the quarry then walk their product where it is spread.
Did find old river pebble gravel. that was old exposures where the old glass is Fossilman. Now they use brushed granite.

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