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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Isambard [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater I've seen similar sights in real life. In Regina, Saskatchewan there's a scrapyard with piles of old rolling stock (mainly covered hoppers) stacked up like that. There are a couple of hoppers balancing rather precariously at the top that I have a feeling would come crashing down if the wind picked up just a bit. Some of the cars appear to have been in accidents, having their sides ripped open, but most don't seem to have anything wrong with them. It really is too bad. [/quote] Sask Tinplater, I'll bet you've been looking at a pile of stuff ready for the fiery furnaces at IPSCO! In 1960 my wife and I visited friends in Regina, he, Ted, being a new melt shop superintendent at IPSCO. With great pride Ted took me out to look at IPSCO's source of scrap material, an enormous pile of CPR and CNR steam locomotives, maybe five stories high! It was enough to make a steam buff cry! [/quote] You are correct, indeed! The scrapyard itself is actually called Wheat City Metals, but it is right at IPSCO and all their metal obviously gets sent there to get melt down. I actually never knew that IPSCO was around for that long or that steam locomotives were ever scrapped there. That's very interesting to know...and also very sad to imagine that sight! They did save one steam locomotive, thankfully. At IPCSO, there are some waterslides as well as some elk in a fenced-in field that serve as a family attraction (if you ask me, putting waterslides right next a steel smelter doesn't quite make sense, but whatever). At the parking lot, CP 4-8-4 #3101 is on display along with a heavyweight passenger car and a wooden caboose. The 3101 is a very rare engine as it is one of only two 4-8-4's that CP ever used. The other (3100) is on display at the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec. [img]http://www.steamlocomotive.info/locomotives/SA6.jpg[/img]
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