http://www.shorpy.com/node/9739?size=_original
What an interesting industrial setting, and with a non-standard turnout. Notice the sharp model-like kink immediately after the frog on the ‘through’ route?
Crandell
Again, there is a prototype for just about anything - even my badly laid track!
Yes even I can model track like that, did you notice the left rail, the rail head (rail ball) has cracked and broken off.
Upper left…Is that a signal device, looks like pullys an oil lamp??? very interesting… John
That is an interesting old picture, has lots of possibilities for modeling.
Mark
Crandell,
Who authorized you to post photos of my crappy track work? LOL
Rich
Crandell.
It looks like the stove factories water tank is nearly empty. I love Shorpy. I can spend hours looking around a golden era. They have some of the best pictures of a bygone era.
Pete
I would particularly call attention of the lack of weathering evident on these heavy industrial structures. Too often today’s hobbyists attempting to replicate a scene such as this will weather the model buildings to the degree that they would look absolutely post-apocalyptic! Than simply ain’t the real world. [;)]
CNJ831
I love the Shorpy photo series because they help me understand how different everyday life really was 100 years ago.
Casual dress as we know it was unheard of for work or public appearances before the 1970s. Men usually wore hats until WW2 (or even later). Businesses took pride in appearances - a dirty, trashed business would drive customers away. Labor was relatively cheap, so keeping things clean and tidy was affordable.
Even in 1910, the photos of cities showed plenty of rail in the streets, and not an automobile to be found. All non-rail vehicles in many photos were horse or mule-drawn.
Fred W
…modeling foggy coastal Oregon, where it’s always 1900…
Looks like that would be a challenge to model trackwork like that. Especially getting dirt to fill the areas and still being able to keep derailments down and flanges from getting dirty.
This is an excellent photo and the scene could be modeled with no need for selective compression! I wonder how late into the 20th century this factory operated? Any idea?
I typed the name of the company into a search on yahoo (too lazy to get a better home page) and found:
Wow, that is really cool looking scene! I can’t believe how crisp and clear that photo is, and was taken over 110 years ago! Anybody know what kind of camera was used back then?
Actually, I had some track work like that. I had drilled and doweled a couple of modules. Oops, forgot to put screws in them. When I did, it looked alot like…
Not much decay in 10 years. And maybe the desiree to keep it clean lead to this:
Shortly after the construction of these three iconic buildings (1907), the Glazier Stove Company went bankrupt amidst a political and financial scandal involving Frank P. Glazier.
They had a big but short lived company…
Would have looked something like this…
@Motley. This is most likely an 8x10 glass plate image. In other words, there is no enlargement on this image, and the online image may, in fact, be a reduction. Certainly it probably wasn’t scanned at the highest resolution. 