Date nail
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date-nail-243-2484346
title:
Date nail
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Date nails were tagging devices utilized by railroads and utility companies to visually identify the age of railroad ties or utility poles. Octave Chanute, railroad and aviation pioneer, is credited with the idea for using date nails as a way of tracking the life of railroad ties. Different railroads used different sized nails with either alpha or numerical markings. An example would be a Southern Pacific Railroad nail with the marking "01" stamped on the head of the nail. The "01" would identif
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_nail
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2022-05-11T02:10:16Z
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