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Jim Tuck and Doc Between them running his train is one of the young guys who ran all day. He had the demanding job of North Platte Hostler. running trains up and down the staging helix between Cheyenne on the top to North Platte staging or staging on the bottom. He did a great job and kept right at it. I think here he finally got out on the layout with a Forwarder (through) train or a Manifest, a through train that does a little switching of some head end cars, but is mostly blocks on the end.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 01:32 PM•Views: 264
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Steve Hatch, who tuned up many of our locos with JMRI Decoder Pro and the 3rd party add on black box, Sprog. Steve, some of my 6 brand new 4-6-6-4 Challengers we got Friday morning of the session don't work. Please come back and help Allen--I sure don't know the first thing about it--Well, I do know the first thing--I downloaded JMRI and got it up and running, then Lenny and then Allen took over--One person can't do nearly all on a layout this large and complex, but that is my passion, working together on big complex projects. I think that is the back of Mark Peltier's head and shoulders extending out of the mole hole that is beside Downtown Ogden on the lower level. Greg White is on the stairs, and Lorne Noyes has his hand on the clip board is standing beside Mike Nelson. They drive over from Prescott nearly every week to work a day on the layout.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 01:47 PM•Views: 268
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There are 3 brand new operators in the center of this photo, the two boys and a man who worked with the one boy all day. Ryan Schmelzer, comes up from Goodyear now, but used to come once a week from Prescott to work. He delivered the brand new Challengers from An Affair With Trains on Dear Valley Road (Pky?) in Phoenix (Scottsdale?). I buy nearly all my train stuff from Bob Kocher at AAWT. The yellow signs (close to UP Armour Yellow) on the Harbor Mist Gray UP color fascia are maps I captured with screen shots of the 3rdPlanIt of local areas of the layout to guide operators to key points, junctions, crossovers, and mainly spurs and sidings to switch. We have other signs Lenny made with AutoCad showing a compass star with a few towns east and a few west of the given point. The idea is to keep even new to the Wyoming Division operators abreast of where they are on the layout. I mean, not many folks know where Hanna, Wyoming is compared to Echo, Utah.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 01:48 PM•Views: 271
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We met for the session at 9 AM and I gave a lecture to outline my new to everyone operating system at 9:30. By 10 we had started running trains. We had coffee and cokes and water and cookies to tide us over, but by 2 PM we were ready (most of us) to lock up and go to Sharon and my house for a BBQ. These next few pictures are there. This one is from inside the house out the 6 foot tall power rolling windows out onto the summer kitcher where Craig, a professional chef who often cooks for us at parties, had the grill going with wings, hot dogs, and hamburgers. I had made a vegetable salad, and Sharon made her ambrosia fruit salad. David, our son and she had decorated and set up the tables for us, and we ate and discussed the session in a nice after session party.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 03:05 PM•Views: 289
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About 10 wives accepted Sharon's invitation to accompany their husbands to Sedona. Sharon met them at the layout and after seeing the layout, they took off to coffee, shop, and sight see in Sedona. They were at the house waiting for us when we arrived from Cornville. This is from the Summer Kitchen across the Portales. Last time, I left the table so the sun was in everyone's eyes. Sharon and David moved it to a better place for this time of day and year.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 03:05 PM•Views: 281
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There is is Sharone Love of My Life Cook, super supportive wife, mother, and author.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 03:05 PM•Views: 285
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I used my new 11-16 mm super wide angle lens that I got to take pictures of the layout. It is really hard to photograph if you want to get a lot of it in one shot. The field of view is well over 90 degrees at 11mm. I imagine this is 16mm, but still too wide. That was probably not my best decision.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 03:06 PM•Views: 272
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I just gotta remember to use a fill in flash.
Capture Date: Oct 25, 2013 03:07 PM•Views: 276
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