Winter Invit 021117 10
Dennis Drury working Downtown Ogden, a large "switching puzzle" with 13 industries with facing and trailing point turnouts. This is SP territory, so the steamer and red reefer beyond Dennis is the SP interchange yard which takes and gives cars from and to UP in Ogden. The Speery Mills silos are seen at the right center in the distance. They are in Ogden which runs along the east wall of the building and mergs into staging around the corner out of the view far to the right.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:07 AM•Views: 107
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Winter Invit 021117 14
Break time in the kitchenette near the front door. I call this Union Headquarters, because everyone is always sitting there.
This is a good view of the main helix. The track plan in three sheets hung on the helix will be moved to over the Dispatcher's Desk on the mezzanine. Sometime.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 11:10 AM•Views: 107
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This shows an empty coal hopper on the Sinclair Refinery just east of Rawlins, Wyoming. They are just east of the loading track (with tank crs) and the MT track parallel to that. We have only room for the refinery on this exquisitely detailed custom photo backdrop made from photos found on the internet by our local artist Kelly Daniels. Note the 50's cars.
We have no ballast here yet. The road bed is cut from 1/4" thick cork flooring underlayment that I buy in 4 foot x 50 foot rolls, then cut on a vacuum table cutting jig shown in the next photo.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2017 04:58 PM•Views: 79
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This is my cork cutting jig set on a bench big enough to hold the roll of cork about to be cut. It is a made in a box about 6 x 6" x 50 " with a hole for a shop vac in one end. Suction to hold the cork down for cutting with a razor knife held at an angle along a “fence” is through the holes of the top made of pegboard. I found that the cork "leaked" too much air through it unless I added a strip of vinyl sheet flooring on top of it. The vinyl is the black strip on top.
Upload Date: Feb 20, 2017 08:59 AM•Views: 76
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Lenny Wyatt is finishing the low mountain and portals of Hermosa Tunnel, #1 on the UP Transcontinental line. He is working on making large batches of clumps of weeds, sagebrush and the sort. The dirt is genuine dirt from that location, and the ballast is AZ Rock. Lenny has carved the castings to make finely detailed rocks.
I drove by these twin tunnels 3 or four times, back and forth, but could not see them. Finally I caught a glimpse of this side (the east end) from my truck. I knew from the map that I was in the right place, but the "mountain" did not look worthy of a tunnel. It must be a lot of hard rock, because it would seem on first glance that a cut would be easier.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2017 04:56 PM•Views: 76
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Allen Montgomery is adding scenery to the Sherman Hill area. These small pink granite strewn hills represent the iconic "hillocks" for Sherman. The grass is static raised Woodland Scenic fibers. Allen blended the grass and hillocks nicely into the custom photo backdrop. Dale Fill is under the Dale Junction tracks in the background. Dale is where the Harriman Cutoff Track #3 joins Tracks #1 and #2 just west of the summit. There are three crossovers connecting #1 to #2 and the junction of #3 to #2, which was added to the 1860's #1 in 1953. This junction is so complicated because UP uses it as a place to change the direction of running from right to left hand, or vice versa, with left hand running between Laramie and Dale to take advantage of the more gentle grade of the newer #2.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2017 04:54 PM•Views: 74
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This is Allen's scratch built stock yard at Wamsutter in south central Wyoming. Allen and Lenny and Jim Jordan have the Bragden epoxy hard shell terrain down in this area with genuine dirt Allen collected from this Red Desert area of Wyoming. There are wide angle photos of this layout area later in this folder.
The buildings are on the custom photo backdrop by Kelly Daniels. There is no ballast here, like the last picture, but the cork looks like brown ballast. The ballast actually used is from the UP Granite quarry at Buford, Wyoming (naturally, you all know where Wamsutter and Buford are, right?), and that ballast is a mixture of dark and light grey crushed rock.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2017 04:57 PM•Views: 73
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This is just to the left (west) of the last photo of Wamsutter. The foreground track is the depot and freight house spur; the next three are the (near) east bound main, the center or "Harriman" siding, and the west bound main; and then a siding for car spots; and finally a spur with more car spots. Counting the UP stock yard and Conoco Oil Distributor in the last photo (no Conoco structures or tanks yet) and three in this area, there are 5 spots to work in operations for this remote stop on the layout. There are a total of 906 spots on the Wyoming Division, so there is a lot of switching during ops for a layout that is primarily a 1957 coast to coast freight and passenger line.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2017 04:57 PM•Views: 80
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 01
After Saturday's session we had a prime rib banquet at Relics Restaurant and Road House in Sedona. These photos are underexposed, because I forgot my flash unit, which is OK, because I have never bothered to learn to use it.
I'm a busy man.
Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:57 PM•Views: 108
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 02
Sharon and I carefully (I hope) labeled the BBQ photos with names of visitors, so I won't do so here.
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Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:58 PM•Views: 105
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 03
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Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:58 PM•Views: 104
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 04
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Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:58 PM•Views: 105
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 05
In the Relics Bar. I wonder why all the folks are here?
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Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:58 PM•Views: 104
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 06
This is Sharon and her masseuse, Eva, who gave the free massages at the house.
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Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:59 PM•Views: 107
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Winter Invit Banquet 021117 07
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Capture Date: Feb 11, 2017 04:59 PM•Views: 106
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