My Gift to Dr. Moore - a Shay Railroad Spike from Mackay, Idaho June 6 2011

After my bone marrow biopsy on May 24, 2011, I was struck by how much the bone marrow sample looked exactly like a Shay railroad spike. The former Shay Railroad ran above Mackay, Idaho in the White Knob Mountains. The tracks were put down in 1901 and taken up in 1920. The former railroad bed provides the source of more than 100-year old railroad spikes at times. I brought one of the railroad spikes to Dr. Moore for a paper weight. I think he liked it!