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The Wyominig Divison is very hard to photograph this shows only about 1/4 of it, that is one half of the upper level. It's that darn mezzanine I designed in that spans the whole 75 foot length of the building . The Cheyenne Classification Tracks are on the right hand bench over staging. The man in the blue shirt is making an OS call to the Dispatcher from Rawlings, Wyoming, and beyond that on the same bench is the Sinclair Refinery. The Frontier Refinery is on the east end of the layout just within Cheyenne just before the tracks enter the small helix down to staging.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 01:58 PM•Views: 138
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Pete Johnson as Green River YM. Beside him (blue shirt) is Jim Betz who is working the Rock Springs Road Switching job, shuttling freight cars between Green River and Rock Springs around to the left of the far end of this bench. All Rock Springs cars use GR as an AD yard. We made no RS yard, opting instead to have 19 industries to switch.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:00 PM•Views: 142
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The group of 5 operators at the far end are (L to R) Sam Romerstein (Morgan Hill, CA), Gordan Bliss (Houston, TX), Steve Hayes (nearest), Dave Houston (Sacramento, CA), and Dan Castillo (College Station, TX). Gordan came the furthest to the meet, but only a bit further than three men from the Portland, OR area. The two extra tracks beside the mains on the right are a storage track and the approach track for the 186 foot OSL hidden track, which leaves to the right through the backdrop and loops around under the lower level to Portland, a separate staging yard. One of the two passing sidings can be seen under Green River to the left. The two rolls of carpet for the floor are stored under these. The red lines on the floor are the original bench layout lines we painted the day after Thanksgiving, 2012.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:00 PM•Views: 133
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10 year old Isaac waits patiently for an adult operator. Isaac has been operating with us nearly every session we have. His family lives in Flagstaff, but has a second home in Cornville, so he probably wins the award for shortest distance to the meet. You can't tell me there are no kids interested in model railroading. If you let them run trains, they are. We have other kids who operate with us also. See my website at http://wyomingdivision.org/
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:00 PM•Views: 148
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Closeup of 4 of the five from two photos ago.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:00 PM•Views: 137
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This is Steve Schiffman's third Invitational, I think. Here he is doing the Rock Springs Road Switching job, shuttling traffic back and forth between our non-prototypical Rock Springs (no yard) and Green River on the next asile to the left. Rock Springs has 19 industries with spots to work plus 3 coal mines, out of which one of our coal drags, or Coal Extras, run. The Hanna-Cheyenne Coal Extra is on the upper level.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:01 PM•Views: 138
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Ross Kudlick and Mike Roque in Rock Springs. Mike was Green River's YM the second day of ops. He was so efficient he probably had time to just hang out in Rock Springs.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:01 PM•Views: 136
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Sam Romerstein, Gordan Bliss, and Pete Johnson. (Morgan Hill CA, Houston TX, and Portland OR, respectively) at the east end of the Green River Yard.
Capture Date: Feb 16, 2018 02:02 PM•Views: 133
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Charitably, it could said that this shot shows almost1/2 of the layout. This is taken from a landing off the mezzanine overlooking the two helices. The view is down the Rock Springs aisle of the lower level where Dennis Drury (black shirt) is following a train, clipboard and throttle in hand.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 10:23 AM•Views: 136
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Same sort of view as the last photo, that is, looking from a diagonal across the layout nearly corner to corner. The west Cheyenne industrial area is in the foreground, and Steve Hayes, looking up from the lower level, is working the 13 industries of Downtown Ogden. Downtown Ogden is SP territory; Steve spots and pulls cars from those 13 sets of spots moving back and forth from a 3 track UP-SP interchange yard. UP supplies or accepts the cars from Ogden in UP territory, next door to Downtown Ogden on the lower level.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 10:26 AM•Views: 134
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The Cheyenne steam yard from the west end (looking east toward the coal tower. The depot is to the left, and passenger trains go through Cheyenne behind it. The tracks to the far right are the AD tracks from the Cheyenne classification yard on the next bench connected to this one and at a right angle to it. Larry Coleman, in the maroon shirt, one of our volunteers is a mentor for this meet.
Ogden is on the lower level. Downtown Ogden of the last photo starts beneath the unpainted brass Tower A.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 10:27 AM•Views: 152
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Larry Coleman has the suspenders, and Nick in his Wyoming Division shirt is another of our volunteers. Nick works 2 or 3 days moving trains that Allen Montgomery has staged from staging to their starting locations for upcoming sessions.
Nearly one half of Rock Springs can be seen on the lower level. Here the Bragden enterprises geodesic foam is in place, painted and real dirt from Wyoming sifted over the wet paint. Allen went to Wyoming to collect 15 or so buckets of dirt from various Wyoming Division locations for the layout.
Wamsutter is the small depot near the upper right corner. It sits on the Harriman center bi-directional siding which is 18 feet long. the siding turnouts and y turnout is just barely in view at the siding's east end.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 10:28 AM•Views: 145
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Pete Johnson from Portland is working a train near the Cheyenne Frontier Refinery in east Cheyenne. Behind him is Stan McCartney and his friend. Stan, from Orange, CA has attended all 4 of the Invitationals.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:31 PM•Views: 144
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Phil Kline has just passed Dale Junction and is at the summit of Sherman Hill at the Sherman Station with his train with a turbine on the point. Steve Hayes is taking his train up the western slope of the Hill out of Laramie approaching the Hermosa Tunnels. Note the train between Laramie and Dale is on the left hand track to take advantage of the prototype's better grade of the newer Track #2, while Phil's train is running down to Cheyenne on the right hand track east of Dale. All trains change their current of running at Dale (see 4th photo ahead).
The track near the edge of the bench on the right is the famous Harriman Cutoff, Track #3, the 1951 addition to ease the grade up the Hill. The coal tower and line shacks are at Harriman, Wyoming.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:36 PM•Views: 129
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Closeup view of Harriman and the shacks. Note the barbed wire fences and electric lines.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:38 PM•Views: 138
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