The Scrapyard

[Pauly]

On the site of the old pottery factory there now sits a scrapyard, a place of sadness and dereliction with a feeling of an approaching end.
The unwanted relics of another generation sit within this place, awaiting the end with a dignity befitting their legacy.

 

[whatlep]

On the site of the old pottery factory there now sits a scrapyard, a place of sadness and dereliction with a feeling of an approaching end.
The unwanted relics of another generation sit within this place, awaiting the end with a dignity befitting their legacy.

Lovely stuff!

 

[Rhinochugger]

The Mamod looks better as scrap than it does in working order

 

[MR SPOCK]

Wow was almost in tears looking at these pics , splendid if they werent so poingnant​

 

[yb281]

Brilliant!! Just my cup of tea Pauly - but there again, you knew that .

 

[annieshalt]

likes that i do

 

[mike]

likes that i do

me too

 

[metzbahner]

otto looks so unhappy. i guess his german melancholy is getting the better of him.

better turn on some schumann.

 

[playmofire]

I'll give you a fiver for the lot, Guv!

 

[garrymartin]

Lovely pictures, I can almost hear the spitting,hissing noise of the cutter,followed by the thump as the metal hits the floor.
As said kindest thing for the mamod, although I would rather take a lump hammer to it myself.

 

[darkdaniel100]

Awesome pic - Gotta ask where the Traction Engine model came from??

Thanks !

 

[Pauly]

At Stoneleigh, a trader had a huge pile of them.
It was very colour originally with a bright yellow funnel.

 

[C&S]

The traction engine is magic - so much you could do with one. Flat car load (with chimney de-mounted) or what about a three-foot gauge version of "Old Chainy", the traction engine loco from the Brill branch? If you mounted the body on an MDC motor bogie you'd be well on the way, or look at some similar(ish) locos used by the cement lines in Kent, and add a home-made cab.

Sorry the pictures are rather dark - it's in a windowless shed at Quainton, but the other one's in the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden (but what's the betting you're not allowed to take photos!)

 

[Shawn]

Nice; I love scrap yards they really add to the scene

 

[NigelP]

Nice; I love scrap yards they really add to the scene

so do I. Alan Sibley's Allied Marine was one of the first 4mm layouts to inspire me when I saw it in Railway Modeller in the late 70s. As I remember the layout was about 12 ft long and had 3 scrapyards.

 

[Don Gilham]

I love picking my way through real scrapyards (and have found some very weird things in my time) and yours, Pauly, just makes me want to have a wander......

...anyone yet invented a scale reducer for human beans ?