November 14, 2011 06:41AM
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Good point. After 1936, as Germany began to re-arm in earnest, and the Japanese started their war in China, the price of scrap began to rise. By 1937, as the US slowly started rebuilding the armed services, starting with the Navy, scrap prices really took off and the dead lines of old locos were some of the best sources. Building ships for the Navy takes a lot of steel and that was the biggest reasons for the rise in scrap prices after 1937.
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