Went Walking

The heat rose with the sun as I set out around ten today for a walk. I didn't know how far I'd go, but I wanted to dig a dump to see what I could find and then go hunt for insulators.

The dump turned up nothing unburnt/broken save for two vintage Lustercreme shampoo bottles (no idea why they were in an industrial dump) and a hammer head.

The poles were mostly 1940s+ insulators and only a few down. I climbed one just off the rails as it was long abandoned, and I took down a few rubber insulators circa 1960 to have examples of. I decided, as I unscrewed one insulator, that looking down as your free hand is slipping is not a good idea. LOL.

The conductor of the local train was quite nice to toot his horn and wave back as the 35 cars rolled on by with the ground shaking under my feet and the powerful clatter a cacophony in my ears.

As a note of interest, I found the biggest crayfish I've ever seen. He was long dead and red in the sun beating the rails and my now burnt flesh far from even a small pond. I guess a bird carried him there, but he must have been alive and pinched the bird which then dropped him. I often see wildlife, just usually possums, deer, woodchucks, etc.

The sign-like things with Roman Numeral 2's were off a long-gone stretch of rails that would have been removed by the '70s. Not sure what they are?????????????

I'd crossed counties and would have kept walking if it weren't for the fact that the rotating rail-bridge over the river was faced to the banks to let boats pass. No way to cross it.

So I turned around in the hot sun radiating back off the white and black rocks and rusty, shadeless bars I followed, ran low on water, had a horrible issue of my hands swelling and going numb, made my car, and went home.
Oh, the top 5 feet of a vintage fishing boat's bow pointed up to the sky. Amusing.

So... That was my entire day. Now I'm tired. LOL.

Again: What are the metal plates with Roman Numeral 2's in pic three?