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Across the aisle are the widely separated tracks running down the Hill from Dale to Laramie (with a normally red signal barely visible in the distance. This is Red Buttes that Lenny is scenicing with Allen's dirt and hydrocal over the geodesic foam.
A little talked about advantage of a mushroom design is an operator standing on the aisle where the camera is here cannot see the layout except left or right, up or down his own aisle. The next aisles over cannot be seen, nor can those on the lower level (see an operator's head behind Red Buttes. This gives a feeling of being out on the prairie isolated from distant places accessible only by the tracks stretching either direction. Al other aisles are similarly isolated.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:39 PM•Views: 124
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Lenny's Hermosa Tunnel portals on the west end and details from old 50's photos. This is a realistic model of the tunnels. If anything the ground above the tunnels is just this slight. When I first was there, it made me wonder why they dug tunnels; why not just a deep cut?
Unless they knew it would be such a great photography spot to watch trains.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:39 PM•Views: 125
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The Hermosa mound with the tunnels (not seen from this angle). This is the switch panel for control of the Tortoise driven turnouts of Dale Junction, the junction between the mains, #1 and #2, and the Harriman Cutoff, #3. Note how the arrows on the right side of the panel show the conventional right hand running, and on the left side the current of running is reversed to left hand running. Thus each road crew approaching Dale has to set his route accordingly. The tiny green LED's set into the panel show the settings of the crossovers and turnouts. As set, the far right turnover is set correctly for a train coming up the Hill from Cheyenne (from the right) but the others are set wrong for a west bound train. For an east bound train from the left the right two crossovers should be reversed for a train to continue down Track #2 per the arrows. And so on for a train from the left and down the Harriman Cutoff.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:40 PM•Views: 128
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The high prairie with a windmill and snow fences. Lenny printed these snow fences on his 3D printer. The barbed wire fence is not up yet, but the cattle crossings across the road are in place where the barbed wire fences should go. Allen did this side of the aisle, and it is just east of the Granite rock quarry (upper left of photo) that produces ballast and other rock for UP construction.
Track #3, the Harriman Cutoff, is at the bottom.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:43 PM•Views: 121
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Also between Tracks #1 with #2 and #3 just west of Cheyenne is Wycon Chemical, that turned the Wyoming soda (trona) into fertilizer. Now it is Dyno Nobel, and they probably make more explosives that fertilizer.There is a track for plant supplies wrapping around the end of the plant.
The eastern turnout of the Speer Wye can be seen also with the eastern branch curving off to the right toward Denver (which is another name for the main staging if a train takes this route to it).
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:44 PM•Views: 133
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Bob Burke, one of our regular operators, throws a rocker switch set inside a panel hole for electrical switch numbered #7 on this panel. that switch operates a Tortoise machine on a turnout identically numbered on an over head map in the next photo. Out on the layout, and out of focus in this photo are numerous posts set inn the "ground" near the corresponding turnout. Bob or another operator can use these three designated items to operate the 60 Tortoise driven turnouts (or crossover pairs of turnouts) on the 84 inch wide Cheyenne steam yard bench.
A small part of Downtown Ogden is on the lower level.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:46 PM•Views: 121
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This is the schematic I made from the original 3rdPlanIt drawing of the steam yard. The 60 large red numbers are pointed to the corresponding turnouts or turnout pairs that make up a crossover pair. Most of them are marked with the white numbered posts "set in the ground" near the turnout. These numbers on the map and the corresponding numbers on the posts match the electrical switches correspondingly numbered on a panel.
To make it easy to operate, first one should find the turnout(s) to be set on the map. Then using its map number the electrical panel switch is found. To be able to easily find the panel switches, they are numbered in order left to right starting on the first left hand panel and through the 10th panel on the far right (beyond the field of view). Finally the panel switches are set according to the proper illumination of the LED panel lights (tiny green ones set into the panel).
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:46 PM•Views: 146
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Right to left, Allen, Ted Ferhenhoff (a regular operator) and two guests are at the main staging yard, making up the next trains to run. Main staging is 15 yard tracks with a single 16th through track. These 15 tracks are divided into 4 quarters of lengths each 17 to 19 feet long, or 15 x 4 = 60 lengths of 17 foot long staging tracks.
There is an additional 5 tracks on the joining bench under the Cheyenne Steam Yard. In addition Ogden and Cheyenne have 5 and 4 A/D tracks, respectively, that trains can be staged on. There are also 9 each 18 foot long staging tracks in "Portland" at the end of the 186 foot long Oregon Short Line.
We also stage trains ready to start a session around the 1,005 feet of double track main line.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 02:49 PM•Views: 126
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Another Invitational meet must be about done. The recycle trash can in the layout room is nearly full of cans and bottles, as is the smaller one in the crew lounge.
Capture Date: Feb 17, 2018 03:07 PM•Views: 122
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Honestly, just a regular winter sunset in Sedona. This view is south south-west from our house across our front "yard." Cathedral Rock is at the upper left and the far mountain is Mingus Mountain. Photo by Kim Paar, 2/15/18
Capture Date: Feb 15, 2018 06:21 PM•Views: 183
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At the BBQ at our home. We started off the Invitational Meet as always with an open house at the Wyoming Division HO layout, a briefing on operations on the layout in the crew lounge at the layout, and a BBQ afterward. Photo by Kim Paar, 2/15/18. Hans Paar is in front of the fireplace holding the beer. Mike Cartabiano beside him on the sofa. The view is out the open doors onto the Portales.
Capture Date: Feb 15, 2018 06:03 PM•Views: 175
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A sllightly different angle from the Sedona Room out the open sliding doors and across the Portales. Bob Ellis, Mr. Passenger Train, is leaning on the pool table, and the clamshell observatory dome is wished out on the observatory deck. Photo by Kim Paar, 2/15/18
Capture Date: Feb 15, 2018 06:03 PM•Views: 179
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Fred and Peggy Eisenthal at the conversation bar. Fred is one of our regular operators who mentored our visitors. Peering around the Tiffany Lamp is Cyrus Nelson. The antiques are perhaps 15% of our collection from our restaurant, The Golden Lantern, which was in Loong Beach,CA. We kept our favorite pieces and sold the rest. Photo by Kim Paar, 2/15/18
Capture Date: Feb 15, 2018 06:03 PM•Views: 166
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