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Legally speaking - if you are picking them up along the railroad's right-of-way, you are trespassing, and everytihing you find on the right-of-way belongs to the railroad company. So, technically, yes, you are not only trespassing you are committing theft of railroad property.

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Q: Is it illegal to pick up railroad spikes?
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