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Looking back in Ogden east toward Albers Mills, one can see part of the downtown Ogden and Shupe Williams Candy (the 4 story dark building).
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:14 PM•Views: 115
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Still further east on the way out of Ogden is the large Sperry Flour mills.
The buildings in the background are part of the 13 industries in the SP territory of Downtown Ogden. There is a 3 track SP interchange yard that handles cars to and from UP here.
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Immediately out of Ogden the tracks start the climb up the Wasatch Mountains following the Weber River. Here the track is on plywood cut from the bench top and pried up to make a grade, but soon, the space between the tracks and the level bench will be big enough to allow us to revert to the standard spline roadbed.
This beautiful backdrop is photos stitched together by a local artist for us, Kelly Daniels. All our backdrops, except the 20 feet or so in Ogden is photos captured by Kelly.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:15 PM•Views: 101
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This is the freight house at Echo, Utah. Echo is where the tracks turn from a southeast direction to a northeast direction on a sweeping 90 degeen bend in the shadow of the steep uplifted sandstone cliffs of Echo. At Echo the canyon changes from steep and lushly wooded Weber River Canyon to the colorful Echo Canyon with the steeply uplifted rock formations.
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The coal dock at Echo, Utah beside old US 30, the Lincoln Highway, and now rebuilt as I 80. Notice all three, UP, US 30, and I 80 followed the original Ames Brothers route to California, known forever as the Transcontinental RR Route.
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We intentionally misplaced the Ideal Cement plant on the model bench end cap to utilize its room for a large industry. The actual Ideal Cement (the old Devil's Brand) is on the other side of the tracks and a bit west of the Echo bend in the tracks.
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An "aerial" view of Laramie, Wyoming. The Speer Wye is shown well here as is the Denver Track which forms the western leg of the wye off #3, the Harriman Cutoff.
Around the end cap of Laramie, but still in the model's yard limits is the Laramie Tie Treating Plant, with its narrow gauge tracks. On the lower left corner is the sawmill and burner, and the office and fire house is on the other side of the paper plans for it. Nest is the narrow gauge engine house and finally the 3 retort treating facility. I plan of scavenging a useless steamer and making a steam power plant to make the coal tar for the tie treating process. That addition will be behind the retort building and will have a coal delivery track bending around the retorts.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:22 PM•Views: 123
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Another "aerial" view from the mezzanine showing the double track part of #3, Harriman Cutoff, and the original mains, #1 and #2, with the Granite Quarry at Borie beyond them.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:22 PM•Views: 119
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Aerial View from the mezzanine of Dale on the west slope of Sherman Hill. The bench bends the double track main around its end cap into Tunnels #1 at Hermosa. The Dale Junction crossovers are used by UP and the model to change the direction of running from right handed up the eastern slope to Dale (from the right or westbound) to left handed down the Hill into Laramie. This is to take advantage of the more gentle slope on the newer Track #2 which came down the Hill more slowly than did the original #1. This made a more gentle slope up from Laramie on the left hand track.
Of course the whole idea of the Harriman Cutoff, #3 was to make a longer but easier climb up the Hill westbound.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:23 PM•Views: 115
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Frontier Refinery in east Cheyenne. This scratch build model incorporated a few kit assemblies. The tank farm is not done.
The extreme forked tracks are the beginning to the turning loop for passenger trains to turn them without uncoupling them for the run back west. The two tracks at the top are the helix tracks down to staging on the lower level.
Also on the edge of staging can be see the same tow helix tracks and a third track outside of them. this third track is one end of the lower level passenger turning loop; the other end is behind th upper level's grey fascia, but the beginning of the passenger lower level storage yard in staging can be seen just as that fascia narrows towards the left.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:23 PM•Views: 111
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From the mezzanine looking down on west Cheyenne we see some industrial spurs, and above them is the Speer Wye. To the right of the mole hole (the mole being the Downtown Ogden operator) is the Cheyenne Stock Yards. The large industry running across the photo near the top is Wycon Chemical in Wycon, Wyoming a producer of fertilizer from the Wyoming trona (soda) mined in the state. It is just outside of Cheyenne. It is now the Dyno Noble explosives plant, using the same trona source as the primary raw commodity.
The black stair railings guard the two steps off the upper level plywood riser down to the concrete floor on which the Downtown Ogden operator stands. The SP Inter change yard can be seen through the mole hole.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 126
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Laramie from the mezzanine. The spur off the yard tracks at the bottom of the photo represents the Coalmont Branch of UP. We take empty gondolas and flat cars up it and return with lumber loads. It is just another job for the Laramie YM as is the Tie Treating Plant also seen here. My planned steam plant will be between the round house and the retort house and the coal track will be run on a sharp curve around the retort building.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 106
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This view from the mezzinine shows the east end of the steam yard in Cheyenne. The passenger trains are in front of the depot out of view to the left, and near the far corner of the bench is the commisary, and emergency ice dock and cleanout track for passenger trains.
From this height can be seen there is quite a bit of room to shoehorn in the necessary buildings for the Cheyenne Steam Yard.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 118
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The main shop, made from 5 kits with the roof off the rear part for some reason. It is laying on the main part at a slight angle.
There are four mains running in front of the depot (or the rear if you drive up in a car), and passenger trains are on three of them. The passenger schedule was such that multiple trains arrived soon after each other, and occasionally if some is late, they are all here at once.
The giant blue butterflies are pinch clamps temporarily (for months now) holding the camera over the turntable. If you ask, we will send plans, so you can add giant blue butterflies to your layout.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 125
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Caleb Metzger Feb 4, 2020 04:21 AM
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Would you be willing to share the plans that were used to build the Cheyenne depot? |
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Another aerial view of Laramie, showing the lower level below. That lower level witht he white styrofoam and purple foam is Curvo, Utah with the two tunnels, the first (#5) drilled in the 1860's and #6 in about 1905. The upper tunnel leas to the left (west) can just be seen in the upper left corner crossing on its overpass over the lower tunnel lead. this is where the current of running changes from right to left hand running down from Curvo (to the left) to utilize the 1905 more gentle grade up the Wasatch mountains (left hand back to right hand if traveling left to right in this photo).
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 111
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