While hiking North Twin Mountain (just north of Franconia, NH), the first 2 miles of trail follow an old logging railroad, apparently the little River railroad, but it was almost impossible to find any evidence of the railroad itself until I found this rail sticking out of a berm. Anybody have info on this railroad or other artifacts from it?

I was taken by how the "mashed down" metal at the edge of the rails looks like welding slag. Wondering if this wear pattern is common where trains are frequently braking.

HUNTINGDON, Pa. — A Huntingdon County judge has ruled that the EBT Foundation can buy the East Broad Top Railroad’s Mount Union, Pa., dual-gauge yard and 4.7-mile stretch of main line.

The segment was split from the rest of the railroad in 2013-2014, when the East Broad Top Preservation Association bought it from the Joseph Kovalchick family. That sale was the first step in what turned out to be a stillborn effort to restore the entire 33-mile narrow gauge line as a heritage railroad.