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This Old Spot: A Modeler's Visual Library

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:59 PM

OK, how 'bout some waterfront property in beautiful Detroit, MI:

 

...along with a few bridges:

 

And just a little ways upriver, an old gas tower:

The oxide red building in the background is part of Rouge Steel (recently acquired by Severstahl), which was once a part of the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge complex - where only raw materials were purchased, everything else (including the steel, glass and rubber) was manufactured on-site.

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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Posted by tstage on Friday, October 23, 2009 10:55 PM

As promised, a few pics of the inside of the Bucyrus (OH) T&OC Station:

Each first floor window has a smaller stain-glassed window above it

Unique light fixture

Two very unusual fan designs.  Although I really like both of these, I'm particularly fond of the ceiling fan with the exposed belt drive.  I would love to have one of those in my house - i.e. if my ceilings were 10' or higher. Smile  Sorry about the overexposure in the second fan pic.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:36 AM

KenCSX: When I was in Grade7, we took a trip to Detroit to see the process that Ford used to deal with the steelmills they had--I have in my archives a bunch of pix that I took from the catwalks near the furnaces at the River Rouge complex--the furnaces were closed that time--so I got away with some good interior shotsWhistling

Downtown Brussell ON

Old  feedstore in Woodstock ON

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Posted by PASMITH on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:59 AM
A cantilever barn in the mountains of eastern TN. Peter Smith, Memphis
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Posted by dansapo on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:55 AM

E49th & Hamilton Cleveland Ohio looking west

To the right is the old Cleveland Twist Drill bldg-to the rear left is the old Brownhoist Crane and looking straight down the tracks is downtown Cleveland  They(NS) still use the tracks-saw a sd40-2 and gp38-2 dropping off cars.How those tracks can support a locomotive  is amazing.

Pretty much the same shot just looking at the old roll up door that went into Cleveland Twist Drill

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Geared Steam on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:50 AM

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A cantilever barn in the mountains of eastern TN. Peter Smith, Memphis

 

Peter

Is that at Cades Cove?

 Below is the engine house for the J.Neils/St.Regis paper company locos at Libby MT. It has been moved from the original site to the grounds of the Heritage Museum.

 

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Posted by Geared Steam on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:12 AM

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Posted by PASMITH on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:53 PM
Yes, this is Cades Cove. On this particular trip I saw one of these cantilever barns for the first time. There were a number of others in the area. I will be using this design for a barn I intend to build for my 1900's logging town in northern California. This maybe a barn particular to the Amish because I saw similar ones in PA. As a matter of interest, I was visiting Richard Stoving (an old friend of mine from high school) last year in Wellsboro Pa and he had one in his back yard. Rich is an officer at the New York York Central Historical Society. Peter Smith, Memphis
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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, November 20, 2009 10:26 AM

Hello this was the last working dairy farm in Twinsburg. Hopefully we can save it from the developers they sold the farm last year.

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Posted by tstage on Friday, November 20, 2009 10:33 AM

Frank,

That's the one that's on SR 91, yes?  I agree.  I hope that they can preserve it.

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, November 20, 2009 11:08 AM

Hello Tom yes that's the one. That was the Corbett family farm it's been there for a 100 years or so. I have lived within 2 miles of the farm for 30 years of my 38. I am hoping my little girl can do the same. Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by superbe on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:12 PM

tstage
that would give members a library of examples to draw upon for modeling purposes

 

I realize that this thread applies to structures but, I found this postcard to be too appealing not to post. It certainly is an old spot.

Shawnee Springs is named after the Shawnee Indian tribe that frequented it and they considered it sacred ground. Many believed that whom ever drank from it would return after death. The spring is located at Cross Junction, VA.

 

The train is for real and the local short line, Winchester & Western, still uses the right of way today.

Bob

 

 

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Posted by chooch_42 on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:32 PM

Thanks for posting this beautiful scene, so artistically enhanced before real color film ! Could this be a 19th Century Photo Shoppe ? Will try to find this on Google Maps for my own amusement. A great Postcard...thanks, again Bob C.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:10 PM

Wonderful postcard there!!

Some things we came across on a recent hunt--

Wonderful old victorian house with a small carriage house in back---Woodstock ON

Some back alley walls----

And a remnant of a church----that's right --a remnant

Church removed to make way for a retirement center----

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Posted by superbe on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:04 PM

chooch_42
Could this be a 19th Century Photo Shoppe ?

Hey Bob C,

You are more preceptive than you thought. Those old guys could do more than color enhancing. After researching the Winchester & Western a liitle more I found that the W&W was mainly a freight RR and never had passenger cars but used rail buses instead as pictured below.

The history of this RR leaves out the details of the two previous owners prior to Unimin Corp., but that's a story for another time. It gives new meaning to the addage "truth is stranger than fiction".

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:11 PM

Hello here are some bridge shots.

here is a station this is in Bedford Ohio

not to sure what this building is

cool house

down the tracks

have a nice day Frank

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Thursday, April 8, 2010 8:21 PM

Hello are a few more shots.

This was by the station so I took pics of it to.

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, April 9, 2010 7:04 AM

  Glad to see this thread come back up. I redid my photo bucket account so I will have to redo my pictures.

         Cuda Ken

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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, April 9, 2010 8:39 AM

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Paris ON---old houses

Two different views of downtown Paris ON

 

 

Oy! I see the offal tower!

 

 

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Posted by St Francis Consolidated RR on Friday, April 9, 2010 12:15 PM

    Would anybody be interested in some pictures of Colorado mining structures and the like? I confess I don't know how to post pictures yet, but maybe this would be a good incentive for me to learn how!!

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Posted by tstage on Friday, April 9, 2010 12:28 PM

StFCRR,

That would be great! Thumbs Up

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Posted by St Francis Consolidated RR on Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:30 AM

tstage

StFCRR,

That would be great! Thumbs Up

Tom

 

     Here's goes nothing, Tom...it's just an old abandoned mine head left over from the old days, you gotta start somewhere!...if you'd like some of the mine tailings, I could send you some. I hope this picture thing actually works.

mine head

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:38 AM

Hello  StFCRR  that's a good shot of that mine head.  You can post photos of anything you think looks cool and  from anywhere not just the U.S. There are folks from all over lets see what's around you. Here is  the old Railway's of America building it's in Cuyahoga falls Ohio it was in MRR in August 1974 pg 28-32.

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Posted by St Francis Consolidated RR on Friday, April 16, 2010 9:57 PM

    Hello gents, hope these might be of interest, especially maybe to you mine modellers...

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    I also hope this works!!

 p.s. these are all pictures I took myself on little trips up to the mountains, if you have any requests let me know and I might be able to help

 

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Posted by chooch_42 on Friday, April 16, 2010 10:07 PM

 That little mine car reminds me of my HOn30 MinitrainS  Bob C.

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:15 PM

Hello here are few more shots

 

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:21 PM

Hello here are a few more shots

the forgotten

zoom in on this one and see how bent the rails are

front end

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Monday, April 19, 2010 10:52 AM

Hello here are a few more

This is the loco that runs past my house.

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:33 PM

Really Cool pix coming up here----

A few more from this fellow---

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:37 PM

Some more odds and sods

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