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An ultimate scratch building challenge?

Started by Hauk, August 11, 2014, 10:52:33 AM

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Hauk

This sunday me and a friend went on a hike to take a look at some of the most interesting industrial mining remains in our area.
The pictures show an aerial tramway station at a copper mining complex called "Christianus Sextus".







Would make a great model, but I am not sure I am up to it...

You would also need some rather tired 700mm track:




Regards, Hauk
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Chuck Doan

Very neat! Looks like it is barely there.
"They're most important to me. Most important. All the little details." -Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt





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Hauk

Quote from: Chuck Doan on August 11, 2014, 11:20:54 AM
Very neat! Looks like it is barely there.

And it is disappearing fast. I have known about these ruins for years, but I have never gotten around to visit the place. So it suddenly struck me that a winter with a bit more snow than usual could in fact flatten the place!

There is no efforts made to preserve the place, and when the mine closed just after second world war various acts of company sanctioned vandalism were carried out. Some buildings were torched. They cut a lot of the supporting timbers on this building, but it remained standing.

An interesting fact about this tramway is that it served both a local mine and one further up the mountain. So ore buckets was entering and leaving at two sides of the building.

Its a great place. Go before it is too late!
Regards, Hauk
--
"Yet for better or for worse we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them"  -Junichiro Tanizaki

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finescalerr

The photos are an excellent reference source. Thank you for posting. -- Russ

Ray Dunakin

Very cool! And it wouldn't look out of place in many of the old mining areas of the USA.

Visit my website to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

Ray Dunakin's World

JohnMaguire

Hauck, thank you for such beautiful pictures .  .  .

Respectfully,
John
Seattle

Hauk

Thanks to all for the kind remarks!

If anyone of youshould ever go to Norway I am more than happy to provide more info on how to find places like this.
The middle of Norway is quite a good place for industrial archeology.
Regards, Hauk
--
"Yet for better or for worse we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them"  -Junichiro Tanizaki

Remembrance Of Trains Past

lab-dad

I think it would make a better model to model it still in use but at the end of its life.
Then it would still have character but be "real" ?...
Just my two bits...