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A slightly different angle to the Yard Office with the Tank, Tin, and Boiler shop building across from the rear of the main shop building.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:22 PM•Views: 112
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From the same camera position is shown the Steel Car Shop/Store House to the left of the Transfer Table which tracks lead into the Wheel and Tank Shop and beyond that the lower Wood Working Shop. Just barely in the photo on the far right is the edge of the 90 foot turntable.
The arched stick above the Transfer Table holds a small video camera used to transmit a picture to a monitor at the aisle so that the Table tracks may be aligned with the shop tracks.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:22 PM•Views: 124
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Another view of the Passenger House part of the Cheyenne Roundhouse served by the 105 foot turntable. This is also aligned via video camera and a monitor, the camera being mounded from the underside of the view mezzanine. I loo9k forward to Lenny's completion of the entire round house, that is the Freight House shown only here (March, 2017) as the finger tracks.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:23 PM•Views: 129
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Here can be seen the depot through the gap between the Passenger House and the Main Shop building. Also through this gap runs the single Omaha Track connecting the turntable and the east bound mains just east of the depot.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:23 PM•Views: 121
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We have placeholder cards for many of the Cheyenne Yard buildings. This is the 650 ton coal Tower and the diesel fuel tank not shown on the 1943 Darwin drawing. There will be a large water tower to make a head for the water spouts on the coaling tracks.
We model all the tracks of the Cheyenne yard except 3 of the freight house tracks, and two of the storage tracks. The two storage tracks we do have are shown here (with the red box car on one).
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:25 PM•Views: 155
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Verryl Jul 15, 2018 08:49 AM
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The coal tower is a kit "at one time offered by IHC, a now-defunct model manufacturer." I do not recall. It is about the first kit I built about 15 years ago, but I am sure it is no longer available. I have three, Cheyenne, Laramie, and Rawlins. See http://lists.project-wombat.org/pipermail/project-wombat-project-wombat.org/2010-July/003333.html |
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This is the Hanna, Wyoming Depot across the double track mains from the coal marshaling yards of the three Hanna Mines that we model (out of about 15 that existed at one time or another).
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:25 PM•Views: 127
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This is the west end of Laramie just inside the west yard limit. There are 6 local businesses here on this spur to switch in operations.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:30 PM•Views: 113
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Back in Laramie. We have two 3 foot sections of our 15 foot ice dock done.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:31 PM•Views: 112
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This is the Laramie Turntable and 9 stall Roundhouse. Besides the scratch built Cheyenne roundhouse(s) and this one we have 9 stall roundhouses in Ogden, Green River, and Evanston.
The 650 ton coal tower is also seen here.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:35 PM•Views: 133
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This shot of the rising terrain west of Cheyenne starting the climb up Sherman Hill shows the double tracks under the backdrop and the turnout leading to the Granite Quarry at Borie, Wyoming. The tracks in the foreground are the 18 foot long stretch of double track main on the mostly single track alternate main up Sherman Hill, the Harriman Cutoff (Track #3). This short stretch of double track allows two complete trains to pass each other, since the mostly single track is bi-directional, up the Hill to Dale, and down from Dale through Speer Wye and on to Denver bypassing Cheyenne.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:45 PM•Views: 109
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This view is northwest over the double track portion of the Harriman Cutoff . Beyond Track #1 and #2 near the backdrop depiction of the Granite Quarry tailings, is the quarry yard tracks.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:45 PM•Views: 104
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This is the coal tower at Harriman, Wyoming on the double track portion of the Harriman Cutoff.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 02:45 PM•Views: 114
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This is the artist painted backdrop of the Wasatch Mountains as seen from Ogden, Utah. We have many buildings to scratch build here also.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:13 PM•Views: 118
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Also in the shadow of the Wasatch is Albers Mills in Ogden. In the right hand distance is part of Sperry Mills.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:13 PM•Views: 121
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The west end of Ogden at the as yet unpainted brass Coal Tower and 105 foot turntable and 9 stall roundhouse. Around this bend is the other end of the main staging, so entering it from this side we call going to either LA or Oakland.
You will recall that if entered from the other end this staging represents east of Cheyenne, or Chicago, Marysville, KS, KC, St. Louis and points further east or southeast.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:13 PM•Views: 120
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