11-14-2012, 06:32 PM
I've been slowy putting this area together in my head and now, like everything else, it doesn't work the way I wanted it, but it is coming together.
If anyone can give me ideas on how to model mud splashing up on the rails it is a detail I need to add when this gets near being finished. In the fifties these team track yards were just about at the end of their life. Trucks had taken much of the local business. This yard survived until the late 60's but was not used much. I remember the yard was all weeds and mud.
The last train to this area was in 1965.
The building is a shell that will be covered with brick. It is in place so I can get the track and clearence right.
The coal yard was a small dealer, only receiving one load at a time. It was odd that it came by rail untill the early sixties because we have a lot of coal locally.
The coal trestle was restricted to "car only" even in the PC turntable of 1968.
Charlie
If anyone can give me ideas on how to model mud splashing up on the rails it is a detail I need to add when this gets near being finished. In the fifties these team track yards were just about at the end of their life. Trucks had taken much of the local business. This yard survived until the late 60's but was not used much. I remember the yard was all weeds and mud.
The last train to this area was in 1965.
The building is a shell that will be covered with brick. It is in place so I can get the track and clearence right.
The coal yard was a small dealer, only receiving one load at a time. It was odd that it came by rail untill the early sixties because we have a lot of coal locally.
The coal trestle was restricted to "car only" even in the PC turntable of 1968.
Charlie