I dont remember who it was that had made those cutaway locos. But check this out[:D]
Joe,
I believe it was Bob Boudreau - aka FundyNorthern. He’s our resident expert and has been doing cutaways for years. Yeah, that’s a tough picture to view - whether you’re a diesel OR steam fan.
Tom
Man, I just saw that pic…[V][V][V] If anything should have been spared the torch…
Back when I was a teenager(a few buffalo hunts ago) I cooked onthe CPR Diners. I remember pulling into the yards in Winnipeg & seeing all the steamers lined up being torched. Every trip the line got shorter.[V][V][V]
That is a Sad Sight!
I was just leafing though a book from 1968 and the Chapter was called “the Death of the Iron Horse”
I showed many, many steam Loco’s all in a line with a couple of boxcars in between each one of them on the way to the scrap yard, they called it the “Funeral Train”… It was another SAD SAD sight, I should scan it and post it, just for that glimps of history that passed us by.
I like to take U.S. 90 ALT from Houston to San Antonio once in awhile and there is a train graveyard just west of Eagle Lake, Texas that specializes in cutting up old engines and rolling stock…it’s a sight to see all the old rolling stock lined up, especially on the old truss bridge just before the track switch into the demolition yard awaiting the axe…chuck
True, it is a sad thing what is happening to all those old engines. I didnt mean to imply otherwise, but that would make a great model.
[:O]Eeeeowwch! That hurts me deep into my soul! That is something no railfan should have to see.[:(][:(][:(][sigh] Well, now they’re in the big roundhouse in the sky [angel][angel]
Matthew
I saw the steam deadlines in Roanoke in the fifties. It was enough to make you weep.