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Close up of the Medicine Bow Team Track and the Stock Yard with the photo backdrop in the rear. The Hanna yard with its yard limits at the pair of signals straddling the two tracks is in the far end (further west).
Highway 30 continues on beside the tracks.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 12:55 PM•Views: 204
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Closeup of the 3 track plus runaround track yard of Hanna. The stub track nearer to the backdrop showing the sleepy and presently nearly deserted town of Hanna is the Team Track.
Coal mining was stopped in Hanna in 1957, so we just barely catch it for our era. The mines are around the corner accessed from the end of the ladder.
We have a nice depot built by Rich Neuland. I do not know how the coal tower got there. We do not have one for Hanna yet, This one must have been moved from someplace else when the backdrops were pasted up.
Note how we make multiple car car boxes with polycarbonite sheet and screws through spacers and scrap Masonite glued across the bottom.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 12:55 PM•Views: 203
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24 Progress Signals 060316 13Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:04 PM•Views: 205No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Here are the 3 Hanna mines with a supply track, in a tight radius "4 x 8" layout. The curves are so tight we have a 4 axle diesel switcher for the YM to use to make up the Coal Extra. There is a 2 diesel consist of 6 axles for road use.
The East bound and West bound mains are right next to the backdrop. The mine "hills" act as a view block.
The coal marshaling yard seen in the last photo is where the Hanna job acts as YM to make up a coal Extra--after he has acted as Coal Agent, and has walked around to fill in a form to count empty hoppers east from Medicine Bow, Laramie, Harriman (on Track #3), and Cheyenne Yard (coal tower, power house), and local Cheyenne industries (Frontier Oil, City Coal and Ice, Wycon Chemical). After making up his train as YM, he becomes a road crew to deliver the required number of loads to those places. He picks up the MT's and returns them to the mines or to the marshaling yard.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:04 PM•Views: 204
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Just around that bend between the Hanna Mines and the backdrop is the Sinclair Refinery. Even though this is a fairly wide bench (36"), with two Mains, an Alternate Main a Storage track, a Loaded and a Loading track, the bench was not wide enough to model a refinery, do we "settled" on a backdrop made from 1950"s photos. The detail is exquisite!
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:05 PM•Views: 197
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This is the Cheyenne Frontier Refinery I built from 2 kits combined with a lot of scratch built towers, and loading dock, and pipe rack with a raft of piping made by 3D priting. I have several details to add, and the the tank farm will fill in all around it.
This is at the eastern end of the Cheyenne bench adjacent to the Cheyenne Classification yard. The small helix leads down to staging on the lower level. Entered from this end, staging represents North Platte, Chicago, Marysville KS, KC and St. Louis. Entered from the other end through Ogden directly from the lower level, the same staging represents LA or Oakland.
The separate Portland staging yard is reached by 168 feet of hidden track on the 3rd level down between Westvaco and Rock Springs (both on the lower level). Physically it is on the lower level of the bench to the right of this aisle with the plywood ramp seen leading up to the riser.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:14 PM•Views: 192
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The west of the Sinclair refinery and Rawlins. A fine model of the Rawlins Depot is mounted here on a shelf extended through the backdrop to replace it for this section. The depot is visible from the front (street entrance side) from the lower level aisle behind this backdrop.
From the bench edge are the following tracks: East Bound Main, West Bound Main, Alternate Main, Refinery Storage Track, Empties/Loaded Track, and Loading Tracks, the latter two being stub sidings.
There are just further on a barely visible stub Team Track and a Freight House Track. To the left of the Mains beyond the coal tower is the Stock Yard Track and Pens.
The depot is partially hidden by the coal tower, and beyond it is the Mercantile Co. Stub track.
Rawlins is a challenging yard to work for a part time YM with all the traffic to stay out of the way of on the mains, and the numerous runarounds moves necessary due to the stub tracks. Plus, it only has the Alternate Main and the Refinery Storage track for classifying.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:06 PM•Views: 227
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Here is Rawlins bordering Sinclair Oil. for spots it has a Mercantile company (hidden beyond the coal tower, the Depot, The Stock Track, the coal loading track, the Freight House, and the Team Track (turnout just showing).
Around the end cap an into the Red Desert, a dry part of the prairie. The signals on the left bench are the ABS signals for the Rawlins Yard Limits. Rawlins does not require a permanent YM; usually I act as a floating YM for it, Evanston, and Echo (the last 2 on the lower level. Or I assign someone to that floating job.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:06 PM•Views: 215
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In this greatly foreshortened photo (as they all are) these are the signals at the Rawlins west Yard Limit. The backdrop is covered with plastic sheeting to protect it from the flying wet Sculptamold use on the seams and transitions of the Bragdon Geodesic Foam.
All the signal masts have about 1" long support tubes through which the 4 wires are run (G, Y, R, and common) that extend through the bench. Allen glued blocks of wood in place and drilled them for the tubes, then fished the 4 pigtails through the hole and left a long loop of wires hanging under the benches with the other end soldered to the ABS logic boards.
So if they get bumped, they tend to get knocked over, and not bent or broken, and they can be pulled out if we need to work of them.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:08 PM•Views: 193
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This is adjacent to the last photo. There are several shallow cuts with rock castings (unpainted as yet) in this section of the Red Desert west of Rawlins.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:08 PM•Views: 186
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A test stained rock casting.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:09 PM•Views: 187
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Around the end cap from the last Red Desert area (still Red Desert) this is Wamsutter, just a depot and Team Track and Stock Yard. This is sheep country.
Center sidings (Harriman Sidings) like this are common on the wide open spaces of Wyoming. Note the two headed signal on a single mast west bound approaching the siding. This, and the Harriman, Wyoming siding on Track #3 up Sherman Hill each require an Arduino computer to operate ABS. The setting of the 3 sets of turnout points is required to be fed to the little program on each Arduino to keep the signal logic straight, so we had to replace the Caboose Hobbies ground throws with electrical slide switches to direct a current from rail to rail (limited b a 10K resistor) to an occupancy detector logic unit so the Arduino could correctly light the lower and upper signal heads.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:11 PM•Views: 192
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Close up of a two head signal mast on a "concrete" block Allen cut from low density modeling foam. He scratch built the stock yard also. The town behind is Wamsutter, nearly deserted in 1957, but today with a lot of gas well activity.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:09 PM•Views: 181
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Town more in focus with stock yard in focus.
Note old vehicles.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:09 PM•Views: 184
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Standard UP depot. We have 3 of these, Hanna, Wamsutter, and Echo.
Capture Date: Jun 3, 2016 01:10 PM•Views: 183
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