What we found in our Backyard in Tombstone, Arizona.

[randallroberts]

I envy you living in Tombstone. You have an amazing backyard.

[chickinpickin]

To live and own a piece of Arizona Histoty is fantastic!! Congrats to you Sir.

[JackJackson-fisz]

Love watching your shows on tombstone we live in the snowy mountains In Australia and hope to get to America someday and visit tombstone

[joyceandgeorge]

Fascinating! Have you checked the Library of Congress for maps in their collection you may have missed? You can search them online. Also...would LOVE to see that rose bush in bloom!!

[ellymeerleveldt]

Awesome video Dave thank you so much for sharing👍

[mercedithcompala]

Wow, your back yard is awesome, I can just imagine how much you can plant 🌿 and your decor is old west already, wow!!!

[TheSpaghetti]

My opinion the rails and ties are from the Tombstone railroad spur and were brought to the house for a project that was never completed. I agree with you the telegraph poles are authentic and the poles began as telegraph and then later telephone and/or possible for power.

[richardjohnson]

The piece of metal with the holes in it stuck in the fence is PSP ( pierced steel planking ) that is World War II and Korean War vintage portable Runway for military aircraft. In Arizona it may have easily been used for temporary training areas for pilots to practice Landings and takeoffs. Neat stuff!!

[SladeRemington]

Very doubtful that the tracks were for displaying ore carts, since they were usually a narrow gauge rail and those look like full size tracks. Wonder if, at one point, someone had an actual rail car displayed (like the passenger cars that were displayed downtown by the library???), or at least planned to. Ask the lady that runs the library to see if she has any info or knows where info might be found. You could ask Terry to see if he'd be willing to ask his mother-in-law if she has any insight on it (long-time resident). IF there was ever a spur run to Tombstone (which I'd never heard of), it would have come down from Benson, so maybe the Benson Library or visitor center may have some info.

[briangaudino]

Thank you, I'm thinking about moving to the tombstone area.

[mariemorgan]

The telegraph poles were often parallel to the railroad tracks back in the old west. Looks like the previous owners of the property had some decorating projects that they abandoned. Would be interesting to look up the history of your property to see what was there before your present house was built. I have an obsession with roses, would be nice to see what variety grows in Arizona.

[Pjturner]

Seems like you should have a 45 gallery, ..., old original tracks, from early on, no telling since that town was special every day, like the old silver deposit, , down the middle of the street, Allen St?..I almost moved to tombstone, but affordability, stopped me

[alhopkins]

Heya Dave. Speaking of trains, do you still have your old backyard train set and are you going to put it in your backyard?

[RobertBailey-yh]

Perhaps the track is for ore cars in a mine?

[ziggy]

Hello great videos but i think maybe one of those rail cars from the Cowboy camp were there as a living quarters maybe? Then moved from this platform that was the end of the line in Tombstone. Just my thoughts on this .

[richardweaver]

Huh, that's a real conundrum. The RR rails could be from an old RR buff. To bad you dont have a locomotive hidden. Do you remember your school history about the EMP from the sun in the 1800 that fried the telegraphs wires. They called a a "Carrington event" huh, you got homework. Good luck. Good video so far I will watch the rest

[Rumbo.]

This video was very interesting 🤔, probably at one point in time it was supposed to be a decoration but I doubt that as you said it’s very heavy to move. So I can be wrong I am only human, it was planned to be used but was stopped being worked on and forgotten about hence why it’s not on the map of original railroads. I’m just trying to make sense of this very bizarre find In a literal backyard. But congratulations Desert Sky Adventures on moving to the historic town of Tombstone and possibly owning a piece of history

[terrycampbell]

What if one of your telegraph poles was the one John Heath was lynched from? That might make a cool, creepy story!

[davidbruster]

Probably rail from BNSF and was purchased from them as scrap. Otherwise it could be rail from the multitude of mining operations that were in the area and likewise for the utility poles. The house my family used to live in on S. 7th St. was part of the original rail line and one of the City’s many dumps. We used metal detectors and the natural erosion to find lots of interesting items including a 1” diameter coin type object from the 1920’s World’s Fair.

[sixgunmiller]

telegraph pole the piece of metal on the fence is aircraft runway beds probly ww2, if your place is the one i think it is those tracks used to have a rr frog and dual rail combiner on those cross ties. The rail is 132lb rails. yes it was from tombstone numbers are the pole numbers. the old man that owned it was a collector, you bought it from the guy who flipped it.