06-11-2014, 02:25 PM
JBW,
I think that I should give you an answer because I have written a longer time ago that I worked as a roundhouse foreman and engine shop master - 50 years ago.
These piles of "stuff" can be everything, ballast after a repair of the track, ashes because an ash hoist was damaged, and ash could not load on an open car (in Germany for gondola, most equipped with high boards); coal also, however, rather seldom; sand, why also always - simply everything. Often also piles of old and used ties.
Such piles were not regular things, however, one could find them everywhere. And in most cases they lay a longer time.
If you would like to model such a German roundhouse scene, then you can add a coal pile also without each border. However I would prefer a pile of old and used ties, very unregularely stacked from very, very old, weathered and split wood. This should give a very realistic scene.
I hope that this will help.
However, Lutz (Schraddel) you can give each additional answer, please.
I think that I should give you an answer because I have written a longer time ago that I worked as a roundhouse foreman and engine shop master - 50 years ago.
These piles of "stuff" can be everything, ballast after a repair of the track, ashes because an ash hoist was damaged, and ash could not load on an open car (in Germany for gondola, most equipped with high boards); coal also, however, rather seldom; sand, why also always - simply everything. Often also piles of old and used ties.
Such piles were not regular things, however, one could find them everywhere. And in most cases they lay a longer time.
If you would like to model such a German roundhouse scene, then you can add a coal pile also without each border. However I would prefer a pile of old and used ties, very unregularely stacked from very, very old, weathered and split wood. This should give a very realistic scene.
I hope that this will help.
However, Lutz (Schraddel) you can give each additional answer, please.
Cheers, Bernd
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You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.