Model this!

[chimmike]

Model this!!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...82.385809&spn=0.014348,0.019956&t=k&z=16&om=1

CSX yard in Tampa, FL. Big yard (In my opinion. I'm sure not the biggest by any means) It's so spread out, it'd be neat to model and just switch all day.



oh, and just a lil something I found.....this is a rail-mounted crane, no?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...7,-82.398&spn=0.000897,0.001247&t=k&z=20&om=1

This was also close to the above pictured yard. See if you can find it!

 

[GAPPLEG]

Check out North Platt Nebraska for a huge yard. Biggest in the world.

 

[SpaceMouse]

I'm busy modeling this. Aerial Photo taken 1938 Indiana, PA.

 

[chimmike]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...pn=0.007153,0.009978&t=k&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1


that's a little industry over the rivers from where I grew up, it's off the FEC. Some interesting industry in there, windy spurs.

 

[jbaakko]

oh, and just a lil something I found.....this is a rail-mounted crane, no?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...7,-82.398&spn=0.000897,0.001247&t=k&z=20&om=1

This was also close to the above pictured yard. See if you can find it!

Looks like a Burro Crane, like the one Walthers has/had.

 

[stang_crazy]

heres north plattes rail yard, as gappleg stated it is friggin HUGE.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...7,-82.398&spn=0.000897,0.001247&t=k&z=20&om=1

If i ever get back down that way i wanna get some pics of it. its about 3-4 hours from where im at here in Nebraska

 

[GandyDancer]

I would think something like that would be pretty boring to operate as a model railroad. Selective compression is a good thing. There is a reason they have to pay real railroad workers to operate the real ones.

 

[UP2CSX]

Looks like a Burro Crane, like the one Walthers has/had.

Hard to tell but this may be the very one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RailCrane.JPG#file

 

[DaytonPiquaRR]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...pn=0.007153,0.009978&t=k&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1


that's a little industry over the rivers from where I grew up, it's off the FEC. Some interesting industry in there, windy spurs.

If I'm not mistaken, that is the salvage/scrap yard. I grew up in Florida and my dad owned a garage. We hauled many cars there for scrap behind the wrecker.

His garage was right along the right of way for the FEC.

 

[DaytonPiquaRR]

Try this one; (must have flash installed on your computer)

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.152049&lon=-100.84004&z=15.1&r=0&src=aska

This is the Bailey Railroad Yard in North Platte, NE.
Description:

This may be the largest and busiest railway yard in the world, where more than half of Union Pacific's rail traffic passes through at some point. Throughout the 150 parallel tracks at the 8 mile long yard, trains are assembled, reconfigured, and loaded at a rate of around 120 trains and 9,000 freight cars per day. In addition, maintenance facilities repair locomotives and railcars at the yard. The yard is a popular spot for Railfans who can watch for the numbered locomotives from a special visitors platform that offers a view of the yards. The visitation facilities may improve soon, with the creation of a proposed visitor's center. The planned building would have gift shops, interactive and static displays, and a 15 story observation tower in the shape of a golden spike. Due to the volume and diversity of goods handled at the yard, its activity is apparently a responsive barometer of the overall economic condition of the nation.

 

[chimmike]

If I'm not mistaken, that is the salvage/scrap yard. I grew up in Florida and my dad owned a garage. We hauled many cars there for scrap behind the wrecker.

His garage was right along the right of way for the FEC.

Correct. It's in Rockledge.