Win Inv 2017 82
The Cheyenne Classification yard from the east end of the layout. Frontier Refinery is just out of the photo at the lower right.
This is a good view of the closed wire trays on the front panel of the upper level benches. All screw clamp connectors are in this 6 x 6" cross section channel. The lower level backdrops are curved out bench top to the top, and the resultant space behind these curved pieces serves as the lower level wire trays.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 140
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Win Inv 2017 83
Rawlins beyond the Sinclair Refinery, with incomplete ground cover dirt on the left. The main structure is at the end beyond these benches.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:25 PM•Views: 156
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Win Inv 2017 84
Another view of the Sinclair Refinery backdrop and the mines at Hanna. Laramie is on the next bench. I'll have to make shelves into the gray fascia for the coal loads when we get the Bragden Geodesic foam hard shell and scenery over these foam insulation terrain forms.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:25 PM•Views: 136
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Win Inv 2017 87
As we follow the tracks east back toward Cheyenne, this is a close up of the Hanna coal marshaling yard across from Laramie. Here a train climbs up a grade toward Hanna from Laramie having just passed Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The 3 consist of RS-3 units is for the Hanna to Cheyenne Coal Extra train. The 4 axle switcher is for the same operator to use in the tight curve mine area, after he counts the empty coal hoppers between here and Cheyenne to make up his coal order. Taking off his coal agent's hat he will don his switcher engineer's and assemble his train, then put his caboose on it, and call DS for clearance to go on the main with his train pulled by the RS units. The he delivers his loads and brings the MTs back to the mines.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:26 PM•Views: 134
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Win Inv 2017 89
A Geep consist with a local leaving Cheyenne past the unpainted brass model of Tower A and under the 5 track signal bridge. The Wyoming Division operates under Rule 251D with written track warrants (with verbal verification by phone), and protection by ABS. These signals are ABS leaving Cheyenne, but entering Cheyenne from the other direction (east bound) Track 2 into Cheyenne is always red to cause each train to stop and ask the YM for permission to enter. The YM then sets the route he needs for the train and pressed a momentary switch for permission to enter the yard. This changes the normally red to yellow for the train to enter. After 30 seconds the aspect returns to red automatically. These "mother-may-I signals are here, both ends of Laramie and Green River (out on the middle of the layout) and the east end of Ogden. The other yard limits of Cheyenne and Ogden are not signaled, since they border into staging.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:28 PM•Views: 133
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Win Inv 2017 90Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:28 PM•Views: 131No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Win Inv 2017 91
Here is the train sent up toward Dale Junction via the Harriman Cutoff. It is taking the main along side the siding on this stretch of bidirectional single track. The whole layout is double tracked, except for the single track #3, the single track OSL, and the single track Park City Branch.
We have yet to signal the OSL, but that is upcoming as of February, 2017. We will probably not signal the 30 foot Park City Branch; we only run one turn on it per session.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:31 PM•Views: 130
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Win Inv 2017 92
An elevated view of the custom photo backdrop up Sherman Hill, Tracks #1 and #2 near the backdrop, and #3, the Harriman Cutoff, in the foreground. The coal tower is at Harriman, Wyoming. The Cutoff was opened in 1953 as a gentler grade (1.15%) up the Hill than the 1.55% constant grade of #1.
The yellow Dale Switch Panel for the Dale Tortoise Machines can be seen at the end of the aisle. All switch panels are recessed rocker switches and routes are indicated on the map face by lighted LEDs.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:32 PM•Views: 127
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Win Inv 2017 94
Here Buzz Lenander OS's to Dispatch on the phone to call in his train's location.
Buzz has built a terrific and precise model of the Cheyenne Steam Yard in N scale on two wide modules (5 to 6 fee wide). He has all but one freight house track, I think. Mine is missing 2 freight house tracks and 2 storage tracks.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:32 PM•Views: 127
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Win Inv 2017 95
Here is Buzz bringing his train through the Hermosa Tunnel properly on the left hand track down toward Laramie. Bob Butler is a Phoenix modeler who was here for this meet to mentor our out of state visitors.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:33 PM•Views: 129
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Win Inv 2017 97
Buzz has his train waiting at the red mother-may-I signal operated by the Laramie YM. When the YM is ready for the train to enter with the route into the yard all set, he pushes a momentary switch to change the red aspect to the yellow above it. The signals change back to red automatically in 30 seconds.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:35 PM•Views: 129
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Win Inv 2017 98
The Laramie side of the Tie Treating Plant with stacks of creosoted ties awaiting shipment across the road by the MOW Department.
I will model the steam plant by extending the stub track in a curve behind the retort shop. That coal tar must be kept liquid in the cold Wyoming winters.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:36 PM•Views: 134
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Win Inv 2017 99
Another train up #3. The siding has been reconfigured to be a short section of double track main. The track from Tower A to Dale was too short for 3 blocks (we run trains with engine/consist, caboose and 30 cars), so at Dennis Drury's suggestion (he provided the technical expertise for the signal system), we made this section into only two longer blocks, each ending at one of the turnouts that formerly bounded the siding. Now there is single track, a short section of double track, and more single track from either direction.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:38 PM•Views: 129
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Win Inv 2017 101
The F unit train approaching Dale on #3. Allen Montgomery's scenery is pretty far along here.
The yellow card on the fascia is a schematic of the 4 places that bound the two lengths of left hand running on the layout. The black arrowhead is a "you are here" notice.
The hot pink card is instructions on how to OS to the Dispatcher here at Dale. The hot pink color is meant to get the train crews' attentions.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:39 PM•Views: 136
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Win Inv 2017 102
I guess it worked. Chuck Catania just hung up, as his train emerges from the Hermosa Tunnel on the left hand track. (both tunnels are numbered as #1 by UP. Other pairs have a similar single number, but close tunnels that are not twins (the Aspen-Altamont pair and the two at Curvo have separate numbers, (#2 and #3, and #5 and #6, respectively). I have modeled all 10 of the UP tunnels on its Wyoming Division, and also the daylighted old #7.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:40 PM•Views: 134
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