Little Number 6 Meets her Big Sister
The smelting works "Schalker Verein" in 1959.
A foggy day in November. The steam engine still has the dominance. Factory locomotive "6", a three-coupled locomotive of the "Crefeld" type shunting on the factory premises. Its “big sister”, the class 50 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, a five-coupled freight locomotive built more than 3000 times, brings supplies.
The roots of the Schalker Gruben- und Hüttenverein go back to the year 1872. By 1903, a total of six blast furnaces had been built. The pig iron extracted here was mainly used for pipes. In 1974 the plant was taken over by the Thyssen Group, which shut down large parts of the plant in the 1980s. Quite abruptly, the last blast furnace shut down due to an explosion, after which further processing areas were also closed. A small part of the site was taken over by the French industrial group Saint Gobain in 1999. The final end came in 2004.
As with almost all of my illustrations, I work from the background to the foreground.
She was drawn on an Apple iPad Pro 12.9 using Adobe Fresco and Kyle T. Webster's famous brushes.
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