Win Inv 2017 103
Good work, Chuck.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:40 PM•Views: 145
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Win Inv 2017 104
I had a double crossover, and not wanting to waste it, I used it at Laramie to change the current of running back to right hand inside the yard. The uard limits are just beyond the turnout leading to Monolith Redimix, so Monolith is within yard limits, so the Laramie YM or his designate must work it.
Note the large yellow schematic fascia sign to note the change of running here like at Dale.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:41 PM•Views: 128
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Win Inv 2017 105
Waiting for the YM to set the route into his yard at the east Laramie yard signal.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:42 PM•Views: 126
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Win Inv 2017 106
The overhead Cheyenne Steam yard with the red labels of the 69 Tortoise machine operated turnouts via the 10 Cheyenne switch panels. Not all turnouts on the layout have white posts with numbers. For example turnout # 17 between #16 and #18 may not have a marker if it is obvious because of the markers at the other two.
Lenny Wyatt scratch built the Passenger House portion of the Cheyenne roundhouse, and is working on plans for the Freight house part, which is slightly larger. He will make it with a section in the middle cutaway to model some machinery inside it, and so the turntable can be seen through the cutaway missing section.
Ogden is on the lower level, but not visible here, because of the angle. It is behind a view block anyway. The visible lower 5 tracks is a 5th part of staging, 5 stub tracks we call North Platte. From the staging classification yard completed trains are stored here to be brought up the small helix through Cheyenne onto the layout.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:44 PM•Views: 155
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Win Inv 2017 107
Left to right: Cheyenne coal tower, 105 foot turntable (Big Boys, you know), the red brick back shop with open diesel shop doors, the boiler shop, tin shop, electrical shop, the blacksmith shop, and in front the light colored brick Yard office, and the twin stack power house with coal loads recently delivered by the Hanna -Cheyenne Coal Extra (delivered to the YM, of course, who has them set out at the power house and coal tower by an intra-yard local--the Cheyenne steam yard being our largest industry. There are 906 spots for freight cars on the Wyoming Division, so it is not just a through train layout.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:44 PM•Views: 162
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Win Inv 2017 108
Further east in the Steam Yard, the Steel Car Shop combined with a storehouse, both connected to the transfer table which goes into the wheel and tank shop which is next to the Wood Working Shop outside of the older 90 foot turntable. The Grain Door Shop is the low one story building in front. We have many more to build.
The TV monitor shows the view from the small camera on the arced arm over the transfer table. We cannot get the indexing to work on it or any of our 5 Walthers 105 foot turntables, so we align them by eye, or in this case by aided eye.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 03:44 PM•Views: 146
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Winter Invit 021117 01Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:00 AM•Views: 155No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Winter Invit 021117 02
Cheyenne Steam Yard on left, Hanna mines at near right. These mines are essentially a 4 x 8 plywood sheet layout. We have one of everything.
The quarter sheet car cards are one move at a time documents. More moves are added randomly, and not planned like 4 cycle car cards. Which real rail railroad moves its cars repetitively with 4 moves planned for all cars in advance, and with the planning done by the railroad owner? One move at a time is prototypical. "No waybills?" you ask. They are in the cabooses where they belong.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:00 AM•Views: 122
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Winter Invit 021117 03
The Dispatcher's desk can be seen through the railing of the viewing mezzanine which runs the full 75 feet over the layout. It is suspended from 2 giant girder pairs 25 feet from each end spanning the roof and supported at the walls, so there are no posts in the building.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:02 AM•Views: 126
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Winter Invit 021117 04
Lenny is nearing completion of his rock castings on the west portals of Hermosa Tunnel. The dirt is real from Wyoming that Allen collected from Hermosa on his trip there last summer. He collected dirt from all across Wyoming for ground cover on the layout.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:02 AM•Views: 122
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Winter Invit 021117 05
Hanna mines loom over Sinclair Refinery, and Rawlins is in the distance. The actual distance between Hanna and Rawlins is 42 miles, but Sinclair Refinery is only about 10 miles from Rawlins, so this is an example of modeling compression required even for a nearly 4,000 sq foot layout on two levels, because it is 485 miles from Cheyenne to Ogden.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:03 AM•Views: 123
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Winter Invit 021117 06
A good view of Wamsutter and the center siding. The ground cover is just Wyoming dirt from near Wamsutter so far.
The two heat pumps hanging over Cheyenne Classification use lines buried in ten 200 foot deep wells under the parking lot for condensers. The ground below 70 feet is a constant 70 degrees, which is a much more efficient cooling environment that air blown over conventional condenser coils at 105 degrees F, a not unusual temperature June to September in this part of Arizona, even though the altitude is over 4,000 feet.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:04 AM•Views: 125
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Winter Invit 021117 07
Same view, more operators. The lady at the right is a regular operator who usually does the Downtown Ogden job. She also embroiders our shirts. Her shirt list her name as "Queen of Downtown Ogden."
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:04 AM•Views: 124
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Winter Invit 021117 08
Staging is below Cheyenne Classification. This bench is in 4 parts, A/D, Passenger staging/storage for west of Ogden passenger trains, Storage, and classification (where the cards are leaning against the cars. A main runs down the middle, and not counting that main there are 14 tracks. But these 14 are divided into two sections lengthwise, so we have 28 tracks each capable of holding a 30 car train. But wait! There is more. Behind the camera around the corner is 5 more stub tracks we call NP or North Platte for storage of pre-staged trains ready to be taken up the small helix (visible in the distance) to Cheyenne to enter the layout as if from Chicago, St. Louis, or where ever east of Cheyenne. We call this job the North Platte job, which we press on anyone waiting on a train where these two are standing now.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:04 AM•Views: 127
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Winter Invit 021117 09
Here can be seen the Staging Classification Yard and the stub track storage, 2 of the 4 quarters of main staging. The 5 North Platte 30 car stub tracks are to the far left around the corner.
Portland on the hidden track third level is also technically another staging yard, although we only use it for storage of trains ready to enter the layout via the OSL or for trains that have left the layout at Granger onto the OSL and traveled the 186 feet to the 9 tracks of Portland. Naturally it has a turning loop and a 10 track parallel to the other nine for turning the trains, so they don't have to be worked from a rolling stool. The turning loop is conveniently under the main helix.
One of the east pair of main beams that support the roof is seen here. It grows in width toward the top where it joins to very large roof rafters from which the mezzanine is hung. This pair is 15 feet from the east end of the building; there is a matching pair 25 feet from the west end.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:04 AM•Views: 128
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