N scale scrap yards

On every lay out I have build I have included a scrap yard with old engines. I would like to see other peoples N scale scrap / junk yard .

Here is a slide show of my current scrap yard

 

I think they really look neat. I've done a couple of Auto Junk Yards before and probably will again. If it's in real life; why not give it a go. Nice work you've done there

 

That's the neatest scrap yard I've ever seen. Right now, my scrap yard is a stretch of painted foam with a quonset hut plopped down on it.

 

I have one on THERR. As I go thru my parts boxs looking for other 'stuff' I usually end up tossing more 'Scrap' in the Scrap yard...lol
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My scrap yard is actually part of my Vulcan Manufacturing plant. It's very simple and compact.

 

This is not a scrapyard as such, but is based on a yard I saw alongside a fabrication plant. Old bits and pieces of projects are thrown aside for possible reuse in something or other. Detail of part of a diorama for photographing freight cars, etc. Mostly old medical supplies...

 

I like the odd bits that look like cast or milled items. Makes a nice contrastto the stacks of disks and barrels.

 

so thats where you store extra cut off discs.... looks awesome btw...

 

Really great photos, I've been planning on adding one to the layout too since I've already got so much scrap..... Guess these days it would be have lots more recycling involved.


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One thing about Scrap Yards...no 2 are alike. Old or new Scrap Yards generally changed daily...weekly...monthly...or yearly as different scrap came in and was cut up and shipped out. Even rivet counting prototype purist * said tongue in cheek * can put in a Scrap Yard...and no one can tell them its all wrong.......LOL.

 

A metal scrap yard in Corpus Christi was "beautified" with fake cut-out outline palm trees made from scrap iron poles and flat plate. Back in 1960s, there was a "beautify" movement that complained about a shopping center going in with acres asphalted over for parking. The developers put in 100 palm trees around the parking lot to show they cared for the city's beauty. And then one of the junk yards that the beautify people had been criticizing sort of made fun of the whole situation with the phony palms. The phony palms remained after the scrapyard ceased operation, and a Corpus Christi modular club has included the scene on one of their traveling modules. They include a photo to show that it is not a crazy freelance scene but Prototype Modeling.

 

I love scrap yards and while mine does not directly serve the Railroad it is certainly a part of the layout and makes a great view block to the tracks behind it.



Thanks , Mike

 

mtntrainman,

Love the dropped "S". With your permission, on my next layout, I will do the same on my reconstituted "Fuller Scrap Yard."

 

Jeff...

You dont need 'permission'...take anything you need if it helps.

 

Would also be interested in knowing what the grey things are in your yard? And, what did you use for some of the other stuff? Thanks!

 

In my scrap yard Jeff???

 

This is one of the annoying aspects of these forums - you can't tell who's responding to who without everyone quoting everyone else.

Other forms I participate in have a little snippet of text in the header of each post, "In response to…" and the username of the original post.

In another thread I was reading earlier Rick seemed to be making specific replies to statements made by others but I couldn't tell what exactly he was responding to or to whom. It was as if he was talking to someone else that wasn't there.