Saw a layout last month and in the middle of a freight train was a steam locomotive being hauled to a steel mill for scrapping, it’s smokestack was covered and the drive rods disconnected and it was being hauled backwards in the train, BOY! does that bring back memories as a kid watching these beauties being hauled off to be made into pipe in Regina, Sask. and how dumb I was not to take any photos ( I was 12 and no money for a camera)
The model was a C.P.R. beat up old brass model weathered on its way to the grave, how sad but it sure brought a bit of reality to the layout. How many others out there have done this?
All the CPR locos were prepared for storage, I guess their thinking was they would be used later if those new-fangled diesels did not work out, a lot ended up in the U.S., not enough were saved.
I remember playing on stored locos as a kid, there were @ 30 stored in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and even more later on. Then they were gone.
