Just surfing I found this intrigueing Chicago / Rock Island loco yard scene.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=666904
Any ideas why the ground is white?
Also… i’d love to see a model of that little fuel tanker… isn’t that the same cab (Ford C?) as Athearn already do? Maybe if enough of us send them the link and ask for the truck they will do it?
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Maybe it’s some kind of sand to absorb spilled fuel?
It looks more like concrete, but they must have a VERY good cleaning crew to wash it every night! Sand wouldn’t be so smooth.
Nice guesses but you are both wrong in my opinion. Here in northern Illinois most of us live on the bed of prehistoric Lake Michigan which ran down to about Lafyette indiana at one time. As such we have a huge deposit of limestone and you will find many quarries in the Chicago area. Most of it is the low grade stuff suitable for fill and cement only. If you travel I-80 into Indiana you will cross one of the deepest open pit mines around in Thornton. I’d bet the farm it is a limestone used as fill.
Cool picture. I bet its limestone or some kind of light coloured gravel as well.
Winter time? Could be salt?
Winter? Would there be so much greenery in winter?
I agree with the limstone theory.
Truck? Beg Athearn? Hmmm… Not a chance. Build your own. Any 2 or 3 axle tractor can be easily modified. Look here: http://www.vintagehobbies.com/HO-Trucks.html
3a. Walthers has/expects a good starting point, if “from scratch” isn’t desireable:
