This is WAY above my modeling skills (rubble is hard to do right), but might be a challenge for some one…
Wonder what happen to the Round house? It fell down?? Neat old photo Joe…
You can add my new addition to the Resurrection.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/nicholas_savatgy/_forumfiles/2/Round1.JPG)
Noel Wilson said:
Wonder what happen to the Round house? It fell down?? Neat old photo Joe…
Noel,
That’s a picture from the Civil War, taken by Mathew Brady, I think. “Atlanta as it appeared after Sherman’s raid” ?
That is correct Pete. Here is the caption that goes with it…
The ruins of an extensively damaged Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864. After Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman captured the city, he began his destructive March to the Sea, finally taking the port of Savannah on December 21. (Mathew Brady/NARA)
Tk’s guys for the info… I think Nicks replacement need some more testing yet. Send over night if possible for testing… hehehehe.(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/noelw/Logo/Dr%20Pepper.gif)
Beautiful roundhouse, Nick!
Neat pic Joe that tender in the foreground raises my eyebrow though. …nice Roundhouse Nick!
What is it about that tender that raises your eyebrow?
Joe Zullo said:
What is it about that tender that raises your eyebrow?
Large wheels and no trucks.
David Russell said:
Neat pic Joe that tender in the foreground raises my eyebrow though. …nice Roundhouse Nick!
When you going to build it
Inside bearings were still in vougue for railroad equipment…remember nothing had been standardized yet…
Dave,
Of course Bart is correct. What did you think, that they dummyed it up just so Mr. Brady could take a picture? :-p
Wouldn’t be the first time he ever did that…
Nope…I just said it caught my eye that’s all.
Whats most fascinating is that the roundhouse was burned to the ground some time before this photo was taken, but they just cleared the tracks and were still using it to house locos. The thing that caught my eye was the boxcar with a fold down window in the side obviously being used as a office/shed
Vic Smith said:
The thing that caught my eye was the boxcar with a fold down window in the side obviously being used as a office/shed
Yes I saw that too but I personally didn’t like the choice of interior drapery so I didn’t bring it up.
Oh BTW…no flags on the 2 flag poles I see. However the most interesting thing I see…where is the wire going on the cable spool behind the tender I liked for the stupid large wheels with inside bearings. Where the hell is Waldo?
Talk to me about the tender that is blown through the back of the wall
Hi Folks:
- beautiful locomotives, ugly smokestacks
I really like the filagree ( spelling ) decoration.
Who was the A&WP?RR ?
- Boomer: do a “copy a paste” of the roundhouse photo to reveal a full view of the turn table
With the full view of the loco on the turntable, you will then see that the wood box on the locomotive boiler on track 9 is literally a sand box !
The loco on the turntable has two steam domes with a sand box at the centre with a bell mounted on top of the sand box with the sand lines coming down from the sand box to the drivers
- I guess the purpose of the staged photo is for the Southern War department to boost the moral of the Southern troops
Norman
Here’s a little history of the Battle of Atlanta…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Atlanta
That photo was probably taken long after Sherman had left for Savannah since it looks like it’s been cleaned up after Sherman’s troops burned it to the ground.