Yes, scrap yards are cool and very necessary. When my sons were teens we would go to the "yards" on shopping trips for car parts just like the girls would shop for clothes. "AltoonaWorks" website has photos of Cresson steel where a lot of NS stuff is scrapped. Some years ago when Conrail was scrapping their caboses I roamed through a big scrap yard in Sharpsburg jammed with cabooses and other cars. Thousands of rail cars met there end in that yard. I have video of a CR train going to Conway Yards with gondolas loaded with cut up rail cars and light engines.
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