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By John Erickson

Maine Metal

If you went west from Adams Street or east from Hacket's you would come across a siding in the middle of nowhere that Pan Am calls Maine Metal. It leads to the Schnitzer Northeast metal recycling sorting plant, and is at 44°04'18.9"N 70°14'23.4"W, mp 163.6.

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B&M 326 working Maine Metal in Auburn on the 1^st of April, 2003.
Photo by John Erickson.

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Track Spike	Square shaped metal nail approximately 5/8 inches wide and 5 to 6 inches long used to fasten railroad rails to crossties.

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