12-21-2010, 02:30 PM
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The Killing Field
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12-21-2010, 05:50 PM
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.
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12-21-2010, 07:24 PM
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 
12-21-2010, 07:27 PM
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? That track hoe may have a shearing head.
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12-22-2010, 09:09 AM
The Horror! The Destruction! The Devastation of countless freight cars!!!
MUUUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!! 
12-22-2010, 03:06 PM
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
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12-22-2010, 08:08 PM
I hear Taps playing quietly in the background. :cry:
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12-22-2010, 08:13 PM
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. 
12-23-2010, 12:06 AM
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.
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