I took this video back in 2007. Recently the trail (old railroad grade) I was riding was converted into a walking trail (obviously no more ATV riding on it) 👎 I dug up this old video and put it together since it shows the entire section and what it used to look like. The quality of the video is lacking, but this was from 18 years ago. Image stabilization didn't exist back then so I wore the camera on my helmet. (mounted to the quad was useless with all the shaking) so there is some annoying frames of me looking around. I noted any historical items from the railroad in the video. There is a section where the railroad grade is wiped out due to erosion so I had to jump off it and ride an abandoned road for a section to get around it.

Great A/B comparison pics. Somebody spent some money on the trail... Asphalt is not cheap. $150/Yd in the truck...lay down equipment and trucking into a remote location OMG$

It was well used by quads, nobody maintained it since it wasn't "officially" an ATV trail. It was a division of the Erie railroad that connected Plains to Hawley PA mainly hauling coal. It replaced the gravity raiload in 1885. This section was abandoned in 1972. Lets see if this works on this website, old vs new pictures

Here is meat hook. The larger is a hay hook for square bales. The meat hook was inserted in the eye of a hog so two men could drag the daed hog to a scalding barrel. It was forge welded. I would probaby do better with a metal detector.