13 Winter Invitational 2017 Lenander Photos by Verryl V...
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A wide angel view from the mezzanine showing, art the top, the double track #1 and #2, in the middle the double track portion of Track #3, and the widely spaced track down the west slope of Sherman Hill into Laramie with the left hand running gentler grade up (#2) on the left. Again, this shows the advantage of the free standing mushroom design: operators on any aisle can only see tracks and scenery left or right. They cannot see over into an adjacent aisle.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:26 PMViews: 106

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The Speer Wye that joins the Denver Track to #3. An NCE DCC repeater antenna, one of 3 repeaters, plus the antenna--total 4) hangs over Laramie.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:26 PMViews: 107

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The Green River, Wyoming photo backdrop. The YM has propped up the 1/4 sheet car cards to quickly organize his yard prior to the session.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:36 PMViews: 107

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Before the session and as part of the open house Verryl gave a clinic in the crew lounge on his four card car forwarding system (Car Cards, Block Cards, Train Orders, and Loco Cards). Read more about it at www wyomingdivision org (replace spaces with periods)
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:58 PMViews: 107

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The 600 sq ft Crew Lounge was added as an expansion to the free standing 30 x 36 foot shop next door to the 50 x 75 foot layout building.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2017 03:58 PMViews: 105

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This is a better view of the OSL hole in the backdrop (above and behind the second boxcar on the train behind the turbine. Here can be seen the two approach tracks to be used for taking the OSL or leaving it. Using these two tracks insures that through trains are not interfered with.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:19 PMViews: 95

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The busy Green River aisle, Green River on the right, and Granger on the left. The portal through the backdrop to the OSL is just out of the picture to the lower left beneath the red sign. Part of the OSL hidden track is seen with iron ore hoppers stored on two tracks beside the OSL main.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:19 PMViews: 90

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The Green River yard. Right to left, not count the stub industry tracks nearest the backdrop, are the west bound main (with stubs off it and the passenger train at the depot--not built yet), the unoccupied east main, the alternate main (with the longer freight), 8 classification tracks, and the track nearest the bench edge, the Rock Springs track which also serves as a runaround track. We put no yard in Rock Springs to have 19 industries there for switching work. Consequently, on the Wyoming Division model, all cars into and out of Rock Springs go through Green River. This makes GR a busy yard with block and car sorting for either Ogden-LA or Oakland or for Portland via the OSL. We also change power at Green River to save the Big Boys and turbines for up and down the Wasatch on the way to Ogden. In most sessions GR is very crowded, but you can see this YM has it well in hand with only 2 or 3 strings of cars waiting for a train.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:19 PMViews: 93

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Across the aisle from Green River is the two track siding for Westvaco, a trona (soda) mining operation. The two sidings are for hoppers in and out and the stub track off of them is for the bagging warehouse. We have yet to have time to build structures here or in Green River, but the layout is only 5 years 3 months old at this Winter Invitational Feb 11-13, 2017.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:20 PMViews: 89

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This is a moment after the down the track shot of Green River. The turbine has probably just arrived and given up some cars from its train, possibly those two tracks to its left. They may be bound for Portland, so they await an OSL to Portland train. The edge of the bench track is cars either bound to or just from Rock Springs around the end of the bench to the bottom of the photo. In the distance is the engine facility with a roundhouse behind the operators and turntable. The coal tower will be here also. The photo backdrop is a very good representation of 1957 Green River and its iconic colorful cliffs and worn down mountains.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:20 PMViews: 103

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This is Rock Springs, which we built just east of Green River on the back side of the left hand bench here. Seth Neumann held the Rock Springs Road Switching job to work the 19 industries including 4 coal mines. He pulls cars and sets out replacements from Green here in shuttling back an forth to Green River. Rock springs is about 60 feet long and is actually a giant "switching puzzle" type of job for the single operator here (note the roughly equal number of facing point and trailing point spurs). He has to plan his pickups and setouts carefully because all work is done working off the main. This means he has to travel a long way on the double track main for all runaround moves, and the only crossovers to accomplish a runaround are the one shown, behind Seth, and one to his right. His assembly area is the three track immediately in front of Seth that run away from the depot in the distance, and one of these three must be kept open for a runaround track to keep access to both ends of the other two.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:20 PMViews: 97

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The portal to the hidden track bidirectional OSL. The three signal masts each with a 3 aspect head are for, left to right, the #2 main eastbound, #1 westbound and for west bound trains entering the OSL through the portal. Normally a fourth signal mast facing east bound trains leaving the OSL would be across the single track OSL and facing the hidden track through the portal, but operators would either not be able to see it through this small hole from the other side of the bench, and if they did stand on that far side the Mains #1 and #2 would be blocked from their view. In place of a fourth "mast" a two aspect yellow over red signal is set into the fascia. To leave the OSL an operator must to stop his train at the portal on the far side from here, and walk around the bench to this side where the fascia signal is normally red. He then calls DS for clearance onto the east main #2, and when he gets it, he pushes a momentary switch below the red and gets a yellow over red to proceed cautiously onto #2.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:20 PMViews: 103

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Regular operators Guy Forsythe and Bob Burke were mentors for the 2017 Winter Invitational. This is the Cheyenne classificaton yard just west of the Frontier refinery. The "hidden" (or it would be if not for the 10 switch panes lining the entire fascia behind Bob) Denvder Track is at the bench edge. It finally connects to the Cheyenne ladder for convenience, not prototypical realism, to head down the small helix to the bottom of the photo. Starting from the rear of the bench are the 3 passenger train staging tracks, and a small 3 track yard for local cars into and out of the Cheyenne steam yard proper as an industry to be worked, and finally up to the Denver Track the 8 Cheyenne classification tracks. The last track between the passenger staging and the local yard is a single main used by passenger trains from the Cheyenne depot (around the corner past the window) to enter the turning loop to curl back to the staging yard as if they had traveled all the way east (Chicago? or St. Louis?).
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2017 04:21 PMViews: 107

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