abandoned railroad siding

Times change, and with it, infrastructure that was once critical becomes obsolete. Here we have a stretch of railroad siding that long ago fell into disuse.

Here are two rails joined together. You can see to the left of a picture how a tree has started growing over the rail.

The cross ties have rotted. Some have disappeared, and the remaining ones are not very strong

At the end of the siding, these metal bumpers kept cars from rolling off the tracks.