Layout planning changes,
History one rearranges…
In the seventies around here
Boats to carry scrap appeared,
In Boston to be filled before market price changes.
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When a boat arrived
all area scrap yards came alive…
To fill this boat
all would devote,
A few weeks and then stay alive.
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Thus like grain or snow,
Scrapyards have seasonal flow…
Like winter for salt
In autumn would start,
Ship arrival told when to load.
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Where was this metal heading,
Japanese car makers getting…
Ready to sell
More cars that kept well,
Unlike the American vetting!
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Rolling stock needed I’ll use,
Body shells from old “choo-choos”…
A yard with two tracks,
‘Though I might take one back,
Lots of switching for short line train crews!
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–Jonathan Caswell
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 