In Frame 6:12 is a safety from a locomotive tender and wheel trucks set. In Frame 6:58 is a Glad Handel for an air hose of a freight car or locomotive. In frame 8:56 is a I bolt for a Telegraph pole. B&O Switch Lock Flag Stop Hardware " F.S. HWD Co. " . Great Video! Len.
Great video ! Lots of great history around ya. Oh yea when you are water hunting in the summer do you ever have trouble detecting the creeks because of all the iron minerals in the rocks. Your into something good because where there is lots of iron then something was there. I have detected a few creeks that are loaded with bedrock and they seem to produce many signals from the bedrock.. Congrats on the flat buttons and the old pad lock. Good Luck and Happy Hunting !
Maybe mineral slag of settlement pebbles in huge pockets get disbursed during flooding.. Know panning for gold where one can sift? Well mineral slag pockets build up,then disburse in huge spans of stream..Naturally pockets built through decades,then release ..I am in Penna,and sure know what you mean..My favourite is my Fisher F5 with fisher 5dd because much more adjustments with ground balance,scrim,gain,thresh to combat that..I love Tesoro's ,but in my area they are much to sensitive being constructed for gold hunting. If a spec of cheerleader glitter was on ground it would scream..Do you run a gold unit? My tesoro I cannot use here but In Idaho I would want it...Near RR tracks,Powerline,spots where bridges get demolished,replaced and those places usually always have spots near where horse crossing spanned crick. Places you see old hand hewn beam remains where they pinned and banded sections and those get covered over by generations and cause issue..
Idaho\Utah I went down shore and My Lobo Super traq would pick up pieces inside small boulders(Gold),but when in Penna it is just to sensitive. My last outing I did not enjoy for same reason you speak.I was writing it off to the generations bridge material washed down(demolition),or Mineral slag pockets released during huge flood there a few years ago. I did adjust it out but it just took me out of my mojo.. Nature creates pockets of slag\mineral settlements in Eddy's,then a major flood can occurr and cause it (even after decades there),cause it to release and cover a large span of crick.I bet eventually you ran out of it,true?? was it only in a certain span?.......Natures gold sifting pan released..lol..You just made me realize,above my head a power line spanning because Natural gas facility was erected nearbye.. It is a line toting much juice that did not used to be there...I wonder if some interference from that.. Curious to hear what Aqua chig says,sorry my comment so big,but interested in this one myself..
My old man probably laid that rail. He and his dad worked for the B&O and Chessie. The C&O canal comes right up to the edge of the train yard in Cumberland. Not much there outside of a few locks and locked up buildings on the canal part. Great vid as always
Oh my I just saw the insulators at the end! There's a few that I don't recognize out of the masses that I have acquired😑. Post the Model Numbers if you would, Mr Chigg.
Beau, excellent find with the lock. It's really amazing how the spring on that cover for the key hole still functions. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the terrain and the area's history. It adds to the video to know those details.
***** Cool! A section of the B&O goes behind my neihboorhood. Well it's just a trail now. But I ride my bike along the dirt trails all the time and find old bolts, nuts, nails, etc. It's really cool.
I have one of those locks...my late husband got it in Alaska.. He was civilian worker for roads and grounds on Fort Rich in Anchorage.. Have the key too...👍👍👍👍
Thank you for your fast reply.The more videos i watch about detecting the more excited i get about starting,lol. I always loved history and most of all the every day people that made it. Like you,i see the things people find and wonder its history and who owned and lost it. I hope i find some interesting items. I am a 22 year old girl and want to get a interesting fun hobby other then shopping,lol. But again thank you.
EARTH ANGEL OMG!!!! WHAT A SUPER SPECIAL RR LOCK!!!!!BEING A FREIGHT TRAIN ENTHUSIAST I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THIS FIND!!! I HAVE ONLY 2 B&O'S , GIVEN TO ME BY A CONDUCTORS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM!!!!!
You had some nice color variety and good-condition glass there- Nicely picked! For as old as the B&O line is, I'm surprised I never found any threadless ones. I used a home made bottle probe and would stab the ground around rotted phone poles to find stuff.
I've had insulators and used to collect them for my mother when I was a kid, but that lock..... WOW, how cool is that and then upcarknocker just so happens to give those details even about the date the lock was made. Don't get much more cool than that.... Words of envy I'm typing, to be sure... Thanks for showing us.... wow!
That lock was awesome, the way you could push the front piece protecting the key hole side to side.... Here on the Gulf Coast salt water and our mud eats things up.
A quality piece of historical research and an atmospheric site to detect on. Detecting is more about than if anything of value is found, because that has value to the detectorist that cannot be expressed in money terms
At 6:55 that is what is called a "Glad Hand" It would connect the air line from one train car to the next. They have to be Manually connected, but to disconnect you would just unhook the coupler and drive off. I regularly am working around trains and it always jumps me when they disconnect because it makes a very loud sound of rushing air. I have just bought my first metal detector and am trying to learn as much as possible, as fast as possible. Love all of your videos. I have learned a lot already from them! I hope you kept the glad hand, its a neat find!
That's cool I'll look into it. price wise wasn't worried. just want something good. my 13 year old is always talking about finding treasure lol... and I think he will enjoy the searching and finding small historical things... thanks for all your help I really enjoy your videos. my son always says I want to find a go pro lol...
I really liked the local history info which all the better for knowing when you're going to start searching a location for relics. That RR padlock is a sweet gem of a find, cool! I just love those glass insulators, the colours too. I think that that particular site still holds lots of little treasures waiting for you to discover them. That stream hole is drawing you to investigate it.:) I enjoyed watching your video very much. Thanks for sharing. GL & HH for your next trip out. :D
I really enjoy your videos, I live in Maryland move out here 10years ago 2006 from NV, to bring my son to John Hopkins Hospital. I gold pan the North Sierras for years, used to have an old White's Coin Master. decided to get my Daughter involved in metal detecting to get her off her phone and enjoy the out doors. i bought her a 3010ii not expensive but a good stated. Thanks enjoy
Enjoyed it, thanks for taking us along! You are doing well with the insulators. Looks like you have your camera rig mounted in some way, works well with your line of sight. I know that you always come up with some ingenious and creative hunting methods.
Nice railroad lock. I found a nice one a couple years ago in the neighbors field. There use to be an old railroad that ran through the small town I live in. The railroad was built from 1881-1888 to carry lumber from a huge sawmill. .
Looks like another great place to go an revisit with the AT-Max. An see what you may have missed, or still waiting to be found. As always safe an happy hunting. Great adventure as always chigg.😁👍👍
That is a beautiful railroad lock, very hard to find them in the condition you did. Worth some bucks! I would hold onto it for a few more years. They are very collectible!
I think the chain is a safety chain used to connect the coal/water tenders to the steam trains. that way if the coupler broke they still had a safety chain. good find!!!
Chiming in again! Great videos, the B&O lock is probably early 20th century late 19th century, you can have a locksmith clean it up good and get it working good. The keys however are quite expensive...
Used to have a box of violet glass insulators from telegraph poles, typically collected by linesmen off old poles. The Sun in Australia is harsh indeed.
Great video, wasn't long at all. Picked up some interesting points on the depressions, stones,etc. Great find on the lock.The keys for those were probably universal so there got to be one some where with some colletor. Cheers!!!
Well cool.. I will check with the library but not sure how much they can help... as my farm is on the outskirts of the town.. I am always finding Indian arrow heads in the field after it is plowed and it rains.....
Sweet video! Here in Ohio on our section of the B&O I have been hunting near the tracks and came across the exact same hollowed out post holes. They were situated right beside the poles put up in the 1920s and 30s
I should think detecting along the Mississippi River would be very interesting. You might even find a big ol' buried steamboat, a la the Iron Mountain!
what you thought looked like a caster, is a train brake hose connector, they hang down between the cars on heavy rubber hose, but when pulled they disconnect, making shunting of cars much faster in that you only have to connect them, but not disconnect them, just pull away
I am fortunate to have part of an abandoned New York Central line in my back yard. (Hojack Line) For years I have explored the miles of abandoned track that dates back to 1879 and have found tons of artifacts. The most prevalent though, are nails the NYC hammered into ties with years dated from 1910-1931 to help keep track of the year the tie was laid. I have found hundreds of these such nails, and they can sell for a dollar a piece! Unfortunately for you Beau, I don't think the Baltimore and Ohio used date nails, have you ever found one?
I love these kind of vids. It's as if I'm out digging to. Till I can save up and buy a metal detector. This is as good as it gets....thanks I love the lock!!!
I know what ya mean there...use to go thru Harpers Ferry in the way to DC and Inner Harbor in MD.....I lived in Crimora Va, close to Grottoes Va down HWY 340...which goes to Waynesboro VA. Never done(didn't have the chance to detect there) moved to Long Island NY...and do alot of beach hunting now...mostly clad and jewelry ...nice chating with you...
Nice video, thank you! Have you found any rare, or threadless insulators? I used to hunt along the B&O in Athens, OH, but all I ever found was Hemi 42's and Brookfield beehives.
I enjoyed watching the video and learning a little bit of history. Thanks for posting. The lock was awesome. Any idea on it's age? Best wishes and HH, Dave.
appreciate the info... I fou d the book and actually will order it... first one I couldn't find delaware but I will look again. went from franklin county and Marion County with delaware in between but wasn't there... I'll look again. I am also thinking about the getting the at gold like you have. or can you recommend a good detector for a beginner...
Not sure if you've found out what it is yet or not, but the piece of iron that you have at 6:58 looks to be an old line coupler from the rail cars of a train. I'm guessing this because it looks kind of like the ones on my semi only bigger.
If you can metal detect a wire-tie still on a rare insulator, that would be Key. The problem I've run across is when the railroads clean out the ditches, they pile the dirt up on top of any good glass up on the banks. My best insulator-find was driving home from a hunt and finding an unusual insulator being used for a doorstop at an antique shop. I offered them a buck for it. It turned out to be one of only 3 known of that style. =:-O
Im going backwards in time and watching your older videos lol nice find !! I like that old lock
I really enjoy your videos! I think Ive seen them all. Now I'm going to rewatch them and comment!
Very interesting for sure...good finds amongst the iron and thanks for the tips on reading a site. Really enjoy your water hunts to.
In Frame 6:12 is a safety from a locomotive tender and wheel trucks set.
In Frame 6:58 is a Glad Handel for an air hose of a freight car or locomotive.
In frame 8:56 is a I bolt for a Telegraph pole.
B&O Switch Lock Flag Stop Hardware " F.S. HWD Co. " .
Great Video!
Len.
Great video ! Lots of great history around ya. Oh yea when you are water hunting in the summer do you ever have trouble detecting the creeks because of all the iron minerals in the rocks. Your into something good because where there is lots of iron then something was there. I have detected a few creeks that are loaded with bedrock and they seem to produce many signals from the bedrock.. Congrats on the flat buttons and the old pad lock. Good Luck and Happy Hunting !
Maybe mineral slag of settlement pebbles in huge pockets get disbursed during flooding..
Know panning for gold where one can sift? Well mineral slag pockets build up,then disburse in huge spans of stream..Naturally pockets built through decades,then release ..I am in Penna,and sure know what you mean..My favourite is my Fisher F5 with fisher 5dd because much more adjustments with ground balance,scrim,gain,thresh to combat that..I love Tesoro's ,but in my area they are much to sensitive being constructed for gold hunting.
If a spec of cheerleader glitter was on ground it would scream..Do you run a gold unit?
My tesoro I cannot use here but In Idaho I would want it...Near RR tracks,Powerline,spots where bridges get demolished,replaced and those places usually always have spots near where horse crossing spanned crick.
Places you see old hand hewn beam remains where they pinned and banded sections and those get covered over by generations and cause issue..
Idaho\Utah I went down shore and My Lobo Super traq would pick up pieces inside small boulders(Gold),but when in Penna it is just to sensitive.
My last outing I did not enjoy for same reason you speak.I was writing it off to the generations bridge material washed down(demolition),or Mineral slag pockets released during huge flood there a few years ago.
I did adjust it out but it just took me out of my mojo..
Nature creates pockets of slag\mineral settlements in Eddy's,then a major flood can occurr and cause it (even after decades there),cause it to release and cover a large span of crick.I bet eventually you ran out of it,true?? was it only in a certain span?.......Natures gold sifting pan released..lol..You just made me realize,above my head a power line spanning because Natural gas facility was erected nearbye.. It is a line toting much juice that did not used to be there...I wonder if some interference from that.. Curious to hear what Aqua chig says,sorry my comment so big,but interested in this one myself..
My old man probably laid that rail. He and his dad worked for the B&O and Chessie. The C&O canal comes right up to the edge of the train yard in Cumberland. Not much there outside of a few locks and locked up buildings on the canal part. Great vid as always
Oh my I just saw the insulators at the end! There's a few that I don't recognize out of the masses that I have acquired😑. Post the Model Numbers if you would, Mr Chigg.
Beau . Really like the old lock . Sweet and the green insulates are great
That`s a gorgeous padlock !! also, you did well to find a site so close to major roads, that has never been gone over. Nice stuff!
Beau, excellent find with the lock. It's really amazing how the spring on that cover for the key hole still functions. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the terrain and the area's history. It adds to the video to know those details.
***** Cool! A section of the B&O goes behind my neihboorhood. Well it's just a trail now. But I ride my bike along the dirt trails all the time and find old bolts, nuts, nails, etc. It's really cool.
I have one of those locks...my late husband got it in Alaska.. He was civilian worker for roads and grounds on Fort Rich in Anchorage.. Have the key too...👍👍👍👍
Nice little history lesson and some cool digs!! Thanks for sharing!!
You are very knowledgeable. It's been a pleasure watching your adventures/.
Thank you for your fast reply.The more videos i watch about detecting the more excited i get about starting,lol. I always loved history and most of all the every day people that made it. Like you,i see the things people find and wonder its history and who owned and lost it. I hope i find some interesting items. I am a 22 year old girl and want to get a interesting fun hobby other then shopping,lol. But again thank you.
EARTH ANGEL OMG!!!! WHAT A SUPER SPECIAL RR LOCK!!!!!BEING A FREIGHT TRAIN ENTHUSIAST I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THIS FIND!!! I HAVE ONLY 2 B&O'S , GIVEN TO ME BY A CONDUCTORS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM!!!!!
That old lock is gorgeous! Worth all the wait.
***** that 1 thing that you did not no i think was a buttin
You had some nice color variety and good-condition glass there- Nicely picked! For as old as the B&O line is, I'm surprised I never found any threadless ones. I used a home made bottle probe and would stab the ground around rotted phone poles to find stuff.
I've had insulators and used to collect them for my mother when I was a kid, but that lock..... WOW, how cool is that and then upcarknocker just so happens to give those details even about the date the lock was made. Don't get much more cool than that.... Words of envy I'm typing, to be sure... Thanks for showing us.... wow!
That piece you picked up at 6:55 is a gladhand connection from an airhose. Those are what couple the two airhoses together between two train cars.
That lock was awesome, the way you could push the front piece protecting the key hole side to side.... Here on the Gulf Coast salt water and our mud eats things up.
The lock at the end is an awesome piece of history! Looks almost like it was never buried...
A quality piece of historical research and an atmospheric site to detect on. Detecting is more about than if anything of value is found, because that has value to the detectorist that cannot be expressed in money terms
At 6:55 that is what is called a "Glad Hand" It would connect the air line from one train car to the next. They have to be Manually connected, but to disconnect you would just unhook the coupler and drive off. I regularly am working around trains and it always jumps me when they disconnect because it makes a very loud sound of rushing air.
I have just bought my first metal detector and am trying to learn as much as possible, as fast as possible. Love all of your videos. I have learned a lot already from them! I hope you kept the glad hand, its a neat find!
***** I'm not into metal detecting but iv gotta say ur vids are very interesting, thnks
That's cool I'll look into it. price wise wasn't worried. just want something good. my 13 year old is always talking about finding treasure lol... and I think he will enjoy the searching and finding small historical things... thanks for all your help I really enjoy your videos. my son always says I want to find a go pro lol...
I really liked the local history info which all the better for knowing when you're going to start searching a location for relics. That RR padlock is a sweet gem of a find, cool! I just love those glass insulators, the colours too. I think that that particular site still holds lots of little treasures waiting for you to discover them. That stream hole is drawing you to investigate it.:) I enjoyed watching your video very much. Thanks for sharing. GL & HH for your next trip out. :D
Nice day out looking...thanks for taking us along!
You do great videos. They're all really interesting. Thanks!!
I really enjoy your videos, I live in Maryland move out here 10years ago 2006 from NV, to bring my son to John Hopkins Hospital. I gold pan the North Sierras for years, used to have an old White's Coin Master. decided to get my Daughter involved in metal detecting to get her off her phone and enjoy the out doors. i bought her a 3010ii not expensive but a good stated. Thanks enjoy
Enjoyed it, thanks for taking us along! You are doing well with the insulators. Looks like you have your camera rig mounted in some way, works well with your line of sight. I know that you always come up with some ingenious and creative hunting methods.
You're welcome. That lock was a nice find. I'd love to find a good piece like that.
Nice railroad lock. I found a nice one a couple years ago in the neighbors field. There use to be an old railroad that ran through the small town I live in. The railroad was built from 1881-1888 to carry lumber from a huge sawmill. .
We deer hunted at Prentice Cooper down round Chattanooga Tn we found some old light poles in the woods that had the insulators on it.
Great vid Beau, makes me want to head out right now... The lock was super cool.. good hunt man..
Looks like another great place to go an revisit with the AT-Max. An see what you may have missed, or still waiting to be found. As always safe an happy hunting. Great adventure as always chigg.😁👍👍
That is a beautiful railroad lock, very hard to find them in the condition you did. Worth some bucks! I would hold onto it for a few more years. They are very collectible!
That freakin lock is sweeet! Nice video Beau. That video did it, I'm hunting this weekend.
Great video. A lot of old RR roadbeds in the Balltimore Washington DC area.
Thats the hobo jungle overlooking the yard! I have a few old b&o and g&w locks myself.
I think the chain is a safety chain used to connect the coal/water tenders to the steam trains. that way if the coupler broke they still had a safety chain. good find!!!
cool video, I have the same lock you found, its a railroad switch lock. They were used to lock the switching mechanisms.
That's one of the nicest R.R. locks I have seen unearthed. Awesome fig there buddy.
Chiming in again! Great videos, the B&O lock is probably early 20th century late 19th century, you can have a locksmith clean it up good and get it working good. The keys however are quite expensive...
Great video and hunt ! Congrats on all your finds and good luck on your next hunt !
Love the glass insulators and the lock. I'm amazed you found several flat buttons but no coins. there has to be some there I would think.
That piece of iron you found in that depression looked like a trains brake hose fitting that connect the brake lines in between the rail cars.
It's called a "Glad Hand" and it was in fact used to couple the air hoses in the air brake line between rail cars.
My my second great grandfather worked for b&o in West Virginia. thanks for info!
Used to have a box of violet glass insulators from telegraph poles, typically collected by linesmen off old poles.
The Sun in Australia is harsh indeed.
Great video, wasn't long at all. Picked up some interesting points on the depressions, stones,etc. Great find on the lock.The keys for those were probably universal so there got to be one some where with some colletor. Cheers!!!
Camera quality has come a long way in the last 5 years lol
Well cool.. I will check with the library but not sure how much they can help... as my farm is on the outskirts of the town.. I am always finding Indian arrow heads in the field after it is plowed and it rains.....
@7:02 I thought the damn ground was falling in. Scared the shit out of me.
: Talk about vertigo!!!!!!
@ 7:00 that iron piece is a gladhand from a railcar air hose.
Its called the Glad Hand , same as you find on Tractor and Trailers to hook up air lines to trailer, as to train brakes .
Very cool video. Thanks for posting. I like to find relics like that padlock. Ever find a large glass insulator?
Sweet video! Here in Ohio on our section of the B&O I have been hunting near the tracks and came across the exact same hollowed out post holes. They were situated right beside the poles put up in the 1920s and 30s
That lock was TOO COOL!!
I live in Cumberland Md so this video was cool to me. Love your videos.
i see you do near rail roads alot i am going to give this a try tomorrow got a ton of old abandoned rail ways around my area
That lock was awesome!
I should think detecting along the Mississippi River would be very interesting. You might even find a big ol' buried steamboat, a la the Iron Mountain!
what you thought looked like a caster, is a train brake hose connector, they hang down between the cars on heavy rubber hose,
but when pulled they disconnect, making shunting of cars much faster in that you only have to connect them, but not disconnect them, just pull away
I am fortunate to have part of an abandoned New York Central line in my back yard. (Hojack Line) For years I have explored the miles of abandoned track that dates back to 1879 and have found tons of artifacts. The most prevalent though, are nails the NYC hammered into ties with years dated from 1910-1931 to help keep track of the year the tie was laid. I have found hundreds of these such nails, and they can sell for a dollar a piece! Unfortunately for you Beau, I don't think the Baltimore and Ohio used date nails, have you ever found one?
That lock is a pretty neat piece of B&O history. Nice finds! Very informational.:-)
That old B&O switch lock is really cool.
I love these kind of vids. It's as if I'm out digging to. Till I can save up and buy a metal detector. This is as good as it gets....thanks I love the lock!!!
the end... of the video or the silage chopper? lol both i guess. Nice to see early Chigg editing and how much you've progressed! 👍👍👍
Very nice stuff aquachigger...love your videos, man! Good stuff indeed.
I live about 3 miles from Huntington WV where the Old B&O engine shop is . Its the Chessy shop , CSX now
Thanks for the vid. Good read of the land.
Very nice video, I love trains and metal detecting!
Nice lock! I found one very similar last week but mine is missing the keyhole cover.
I love the explanation of why the telegraph pole rotted out only in the center.
the metal object that you fund at 7:00min into the video looks to be a air hose connection that would be used on a railroad car.
I have a brass key from B&O railroad lock that I have had for many years . Lock looks like the one I have a Key for .
that railroad lock is very cool! to bad you didn't find the key to the lock though!
I have a big collection of locks!
Nice finds! I live near an area where the underground railroad was and I have found multiple buttons and coins there. HH
~B-man
NICE VIDEO! love that lock Beau!
Great video, Beau!
I know what ya mean there...use to go thru Harpers Ferry in the way to DC and Inner Harbor in MD.....I lived in Crimora Va, close to Grottoes Va down HWY 340...which goes to Waynesboro VA. Never done(didn't have the chance to detect there) moved to Long Island NY...and do alot of beach hunting now...mostly clad and jewelry ...nice chating with you...
A Garrett pro pin pointer would have helped for sure ...IM trying to save enough to get me one...save's alot of time....nice video...
Excellent video...and congrats on the lock! Did you ever hit that deep spot in the creek?
Very informative...Get in that hole, buddy....take us along please.
Nice spot and a good day out.
I love watching your channel I'm into this sot of stuff can't wait to get my own metal detector for my bday soon
Good stuff Beau ... thanks !
thanks, man!!!!!!! I love mine too!!
How deep was that hollowed out telegraph hole? Did you take video down the hole to see if anyone pit "treasures" down there?
Wow, Beau I was just down there like a month ago LOL. I didn't find anything though. Tons of iron out there for sure
Nice video, thank you! Have you found any rare, or threadless insulators? I used to hunt along the B&O in Athens, OH, but all I ever found was Hemi 42's and Brookfield beehives.
I enjoyed watching the video and learning a little bit of history. Thanks for posting. The lock was awesome. Any idea on it's age? Best wishes and HH, Dave.
The lock is cool. Bet not often you find something while metal detecting that has the locations name of where your hunting!
Great video. Fantastic lock.
Good video..The lock was really nice find...keep it up..
appreciate the info... I fou d the book and actually will order it... first one I couldn't find delaware but I will look again. went from franklin county and Marion County with delaware in between but wasn't there... I'll look again. I am also thinking about the getting the at gold like you have. or can you recommend a good detector for a beginner...
That metal thing the brass thing you had, that fit in the palm of your hand. Came off a locomotive airhose, its called a glad hand.
Not sure if you've found out what it is yet or not, but the piece of iron that you have at 6:58 looks to be an old line coupler from the rail cars of a train. I'm guessing this because it looks kind of like the ones on my semi only bigger.
also what do you mean by "depresions" at about 4:23?
If you can metal detect a wire-tie still on a rare insulator, that would be Key. The problem I've run across is when the railroads clean out the ditches, they pile the dirt up on top of any good glass up on the banks. My best insulator-find was driving home from a hunt and finding an unusual insulator being used for a doorstop at an antique shop. I offered them a buck for it. It turned out to be one of only 3 known of that style. =:-O
what do you think of your ATPRO? I have one and really like it, have not used it in the water yet, though.
have you ever come to cumberland md or surrounding area to look for anything?