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Post by powersteamguy1790 on May 11, 2012 11:27:32 GMT -8
An early color photo of a ATSF Depressed Center flatcar with a heavy load and a ATSF flatcar with crushed auto loads.  Stay cool and run steam......  |
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Post by powersteamguy1790 on May 11, 2012 11:33:21 GMT -8
A Frisco Gondola with a crushed car load high in the Monterrey Mountains in the late afternoon sunshine on the "original" JJJ&E.  Stay cool and run steam....... |
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Post by KIM on May 11, 2012 12:08:39 GMT -8
Smashing! Sorry, Bob. I couldn't resist. Were those purchased that way, or how did you do the crushing?
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Post by powersteamguy1790 on May 11, 2012 13:43:31 GMT -8
Smashing! Sorry, Bob. I couldn't resist. Were those purchased that way, or how did you do the crushing? That's okay Doug. I'll forgive you for that.  I bought those crushed cars in undecorated form years ago. From whom I really don't remember but they still must be available. Stay cool and run steam..... |
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Post by KIM on May 11, 2012 14:56:41 GMT -8
I wish I had some loads to show, but so far I've not done much in that direction. Your loads do remind me of the fifties and sixties when one of my uncles had a junk yard. At that time he burned the cars before they were crushed, and looked very much like what you're showing. It also brings up a painful memory of just after I moved here. I passed by a house where there was a very nice looking 73 Pontiac Catalina. I thought the people were restoring it, so I never thought to ask them about it. Sadly, one day I saw it going by on a truckload of crushed cars.
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Post by powersteamguy1790 on May 12, 2012 14:10:32 GMT -8
I wish I had some loads to show, but so far I've not done much in that direction. Your loads do remind me of the fifties and sixties when one of my uncles had a junk yard. At that time he burned the cars before they were crushed, and looked very much like what you're showing. Speaking of junk yards. here are two photo's of the Jurgens Broken Tree Junk Yard on the middle part of the "new" JJJ&E with two stacks of crushed cars ready to be loaded on flat cars.   Stay cool and run steam....... |
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Post by rhpd42002 on May 12, 2012 18:27:25 GMT -8
Nice pics of those loads and of the junkyard, Bob.
I like the way the quonset hut even shows that it's roof has had some "repairs".
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Post by Bill Pearce on May 13, 2012 8:19:19 GMT -8
I remember the crushed quto loads. They were cast resin by one of the cottage manufacturers, I think the one operated by Dick Billings, but the name escapes me.
Bill Pearce
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Post by umtrrauthor on May 13, 2012 8:54:22 GMT -8
Fine N Scale, perhaps?
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Post by powersteamguy1790 on May 13, 2012 9:06:02 GMT -8
Fine N scale is correct. They still make the crushed car loads Stay cool and run steam...... |
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Post by BarstowRick on May 22, 2012 17:57:21 GMT -8
I think I see my old Toyota in the middle of the stack. Darn I miss that car.  The layout and car loads looks awesome. |
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Post by fredmoehrle on May 23, 2012 8:31:38 GMT -8
The first is a Athearn 65' Gondola with a left over conveyour section from the WKW gravel plant. Darn camera focused on the goat behind it though. Attachments:
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Post by fredmoehrle on May 23, 2012 8:33:57 GMT -8
Then, a homemade pipe load. Attachments:
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Post by fredmoehrle on May 23, 2012 8:35:45 GMT -8
These are those 11" adaptors from the Blueford hicubes, painted grey and loaded into gondolas. Headed for Bath Iron Works, I suspect. Attachments:
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Post by eja on May 23, 2012 13:28:58 GMT -8
Let's see if I remember how to do this, post a picture, that is, ... guess I do after a few tries. Micro Trains BN flat that I modified with a home made and weathered wooden deck. The load is a set of Athearn farm tractors  |
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I bought those crushed cars in undecorated form years ago. From whom I really don't remember but they still must be available.
