+- (https://bigbluetrains.com)
+-- Forum: The Real World (https://bigbluetrains.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=19)
+--- Forum: US Rails (https://bigbluetrains.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=18)
+--- Thread: The Killing Field (/showthread.php?tid=3573)
The Killing Field - Gary S - 12-21-2010
Re: The Killing Field - tomustang - 12-21-2010
:cry:
Re: The Killing Field - nachoman - 12-21-2010
is that a wreck or a scrapyard
? That would make a cool industry and use up the out-of-era junker cars you find cheap at train shows.
Re: The Killing Field - Ralph - 12-21-2010
I'm looking at the photo trying to figure out how they cut down the freight cars. I don't see any large equipment...do they just cut them down by hand and torch?
Ralph
Re: The Killing Field - shaygetz - 12-21-2010
Ralph Wrote:I'm looking at the photo trying to figure out how they cut down the freight cars. I don't see any large equipment...do they just cut them down by hand and torch?
Ralph
That track hoe may have a shearing head.
Re: The Killing Field - Ralph - 12-21-2010
That makes sense!
Re: The Killing Field - tetters - 12-22-2010
The Horror! The Destruction! The Devastation of countless freight cars!!!
MUUUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!
Re: The Killing Field - ocalicreek - 12-22-2010
It looks as if several box cars are being used as storage containers...two end to end on the far right next to the fence and another on the left abutting a building. Cool shot.
Galen
Re: The Killing Field - e-paw - 12-22-2010
I hear Taps playing quietly in the background. :cry:
Re: The Killing Field - Gary S - 12-22-2010
I don't know anything about this operation except its location. I didn't realize it before, but it is located approximately 1/4 mile south down the tracks from the Mason Park bridge. I had seen it before, but funny how I had tunnel vision and didn't make the connection that the bridge and the scrapyard were so close together.
I have some room at the bridge on the layout to do a compressed version of this, but I don't think I will.
Re: The Killing Field - rrinker - 12-23-2010
You could always make it a different type of scrapyard, that loads scrap onto railcars, but doesn't scrap railcars. The older cars on your layout will thank you for not providing a place where someday they might be cut to bits.
--Randy