Talk:Rail spike

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[edit] Materials question

Are these spikes iron or steel ? Ericblazek 17:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Steel, sometimes even high-carbon steel. Slambo (Speak) 18:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Although, I suspect, originally iron in earlier days. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 11:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)