Railroad junk yard scene

I'm not very good at creating junk scenes but this is something on my layout.

MELGAR

Small junk yard - large dog! 

Jim

a small yard

Not exactly a junk yard but definitely a pile of junk.  

Here are two views of our scrap yard complete with incinerating furnace. Our scrap yard had a very unique beginning. It was an idea of my son Chris in early grade school. My wife's cousin, Joe Sansone, an avid train collector and layout builder, passed away. Me, my wife and my son Chris were invited over to look at the trains and Chris could select a few by which to remember Joe.. In addition to a Lionel Coca Cola set and a Strasburg RR box car, Chris asked Joe's wife Carol if she had any "junk" train parts. Carol's eyes lit up at the thought of getting rid of some of Joe's stash of salvaged parts that he use to repair post war Lionel or, just couldn't bear to throw away. Chris selected the parts that he wanted including the body of an old Gilbert, stationary steam engine that Chris thought to be interesting. I asked Chris what he wanted to do with the parts? Chris said that he wanted a junk yard scene in our layout. Keep in mind that Chris was no more that 8 years old. I enhanced the stationary steam engine with a flicker-flame Christmas light bulb to hopefully look like an incinerator. Chris is now 25 years old and his scrap yard is still a part of our layout.

This is a BNSF-served scrapyard that I used to work at in Oklahoma.  We had about 5 acres of loosely organized piles, CAST (old fire hydrants), MST (machine shop turnings), TIN, basically cars, white goods, old farm implements, metal office furniture, etc., ALUM, crashed street light poles, alum traffic signs, rowboats ,etc.,  and then structural steel pieces from manufacturing or a bridge tearout, etc.   Actually a fun place to work, I bought a lot of cool stuff for cheap out of there.  It's fascinating to see what people toss out.   NOT a good place to be in a tornado though !     Hope this is helpful.             Rich in PA

@DohertyNJ posted:

OMG is that green car in the background that is about to be scrapped a Type R Integra?  Great scene but you can't scrape a Type R!

Fort Pitt Highrailers module.   

I made this for my Dad's HO layout many years ago, it was on the last two of his big layouts.  I used a defunct track cleaning car as the office and made a lot of the junked cars.  I had already made molds of some old HO automobiles, so I mushed them a bit when casting more copies.  It needed more small parts on the ground.   I was inspired by the many happy hours I spend as a teen in junkyards hunting Renault Dauphine and 4cv parts.  No junked Renaults in this junkyard, they were elsewhere on the layout in running condition : )

Here is the scrap yard on my club layout that just underwent a total rennovation.

A small slice of junk …..