Fwd: help with train artifact

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Based on the ends I would suggest it is a measuring tool.  If the 
distance between the protruding part at the top and the two at the 
bottom is 36 inches, it is probably a track gage for industrial railroad 
track.

Just a possibility, I don't qualify as an industrial archeologist.

Jim Stapleton
Purcellville VA
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On 2/5/2013 8:47 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I am an exhibit designer working on the new permanent exhibit at the

> History Museum of Western Virginia at the Center in the Square in

> Roanoke. We recently borrowed a "mail hook" from the Virginia

> Transportation Museum to use in a grouping of N&W tools. However, after

> doing some research, we don't think that it is actually a mail hook but

> a part of a tool of some kind. I was wondering if someone there (a train

> buff and/or historian) could identify this tool for us and let us know

> what it was used for, approximate date, and so on. I would be grateful

> for any help you could give me.

>

> Attaching images below. The tool is 36" in length.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Michelle Babyok

>

>

>

> Moderator:

>   See images at:

> http://nwhs.org/wiki/show_image.php?id=242

> http://nwhs.org/wiki/show_image.php?id=243

> http://nwhs.org/wiki/show_image.php?id=244

>