Are you sure the old timer isn't an old Bachmann? Makes a good use for an old shell. Very nice work. Great photos!
I'm sure glad you warned me with the "Viewer Discretion" thing. I almost had a heart attack when I saw the little philly undergoing (or is that undertaking?)....being Autopsied. Sad! You did capture the moment nicely and yes this did happen in scrap yards all over America. Thanks for shareing.
Thanks for the offer, Grey One, but my layout is set in north central Pennsylvania/south central NY in 1956. I don't think you would find a UP diesel on the scrap heap there at that time. Thanks anyway though.
Thank you. The bulk of the scrap is aluminum foil & foil pie pans that were sprayed with various shades of rust and cut up into small pieces(very tedious and time consuming), but there are some scrap box parts painted the same way and scattered around for good measure. The pile of junk/large pieces are the same as above but with some painted in colors prior to the rust treatment.
Oh... have you no shame for the family members! You certainly must be a papparotzi for one of those tabloids! That is my brother you're chopping up... you... you... ferro-equine euthanizer! Seriously... that is excellent work Chuck! :thumbs_up:
One of the best places to see steam in the 60's and later(?) was a midwestern steel mill, they had a a fair stock of retired switchers that they used to switch the plant. If any stumbled though, they were dead meat for the blast furnaces. Trains had a couple articles on the opeation back then. Bob in IDaho
Ah, yes. Northwestern Steel & Wire at Sterling, Illinois. They ran steam to 1980. They got 16 ex-GTW 0-8-0s in 1960, and 12 of them survived to 1980. I believe one article was from '77.
Great scrapyard atmosphere , very well done Chuck. I too was impressed by such details such as the tubes in the engine boiler, the gas tanks and the hoses. Jacques
Nice job...Like the tubing you modeled on engine and "junk pile" is just right...Fencing around yard looks right too...I'd like to see more of your layout...Jerry
Great job! I like the entire site it's somthing I'm to young to have seen but it looks like somthing from the past????? Bet this would look great in B&W?????
This looks like Pictures My Grandfather would show me from that time. Hope this doesn't aggervate you, that I did this if so let me know and I'll delet them. Their great scenes I wish I could have seen, but than again I'm sure one day I'll be saying the samething about a GEVO
