Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (1) Lum
This sub-album shows photos of the Spring Invitational of April 11-13, 2019. There were 31 operators attending (we have had as many as 45) from out of Arizona. This view shows about 1/2 of the upper level. The yellow mezzanine is suspended over the 75 foot building length. There are no posts in the center, and it has stairs on either end. This shot was from the stairs up the unseen end. The busy yard is Laramie, one of 4 major yards each with a YM and a Classification Foreman. There are three minor yards that are manned by floating YM's.
Guy Forsythe of Sedona is at Evanston, Wyo on the lower level. The lower level has only a little scenery to date. The upper level scenery is about 3/4 done. (scroll down)
The photo backdrops were done by a local artist from actual photos off the internet.
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Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:13 AM•Views: 198
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (2) Lum
This is the other half of the upper level shot from the mezzanine over the same end. More of Cheyenne can be seen from the far right bench and around the end bench. The large yard on the right is the Cheyenne classification yard. Under it can be seen most of the 15 track x 2 train long (30 cars + caboose+loco) Staging Yard. There are 5 more staging tracks under the far bench on the lower level, and a 9 track staging yard is just visible on the third level down under the visible lower level tracks running up the center of the photo. This 3rd level down yard is "Portland, Oregon," which is accessible from a 186 foot long hidden track that runs under the 2 benches on the left.
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Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:14 AM•Views: 188
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Chuck Hakkarinen of Belmont, CA at back left in bright blue shirt. Jim Betz of Burlington, WA is the second from the right in this photo |
Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (3) Lum
This is another photo taken from the immediate right of the last one. It also shown staging with the Cheyenne yard above it, then up the center, the double tracked main between Wamsutter, Wyoming--you all remember Wamsutter Wy don't you? There is a "Harriman Siding" (a siging treack between the E and W mains running from about where operating apron clad Jim Betz (maroon shirt) is standing up to the other apron clan operator, Darlene Ferguson, stands. The staging operators, active throughout the session, are next to the wall--kind of a mole-hole. To the far left on the upper level is the end of the Rawlins, Wy-Sinclair Refinery bench. The City of ??? is running around from Wamsuttter through the Red Desert of Wyoming toward the camera. We run the Cities of LA, San Francisco, Portland, and St. Louis twice a day in a 7 hour session, that is both E and W, and on a timetable.
Rock Springs WY is on the lower level under the Red Desert. We left out its yard to make room for 21 industries to switch.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:15 AM•Views: 184
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My guess is that Chuck Hakkarinen is running 1-103, the westbound first section of the City of Los Angeles, in this photo, while wearing his bright blue shirt, red bandana, and gray-striped engineer's overalls, as he blows for the highway grade crossing at East Wamsutter. |
Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (4) Lum
This photo was taken moments after the last one to not leave any operator out. A bit more of Rock Springs is shown on the lower level, but half of it is hidden under the Harriman siding on the upper level, that is across the lower level aisle. Also the Cheyenne Full Roundhouse is seen just in front of the Cheyenne Depot tower spire on the far bench that runs left to right.
I believe that is Prescott AZ's Steve Hatch working the Sinclair Refinery in Rawlins on the far left. Cheyenne's Frontier Refinery is on the lower right corner.
Chuck Hakkarinen in his RR cap and Scarf and coveralls is at the far end, and Danny Lawson of Flagstaff, AZ in the black cap and shirt is between him and Darlene Ferguson. Ted Ferkenhoff of Prescott is writing something.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:15 AM•Views: 192
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Chuck Hakkarinen May 9, 2019 03:18 PM
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Chuck Hakkarinen of Belmont, CA is crewing varnish. Jim Betz of Burlington, WA (nee San Jose, CA), wearing the green apron, is standing in front of Darlene Ferguson and working the east end of the Cheyenne freight yard. |
Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (5) Lum
Up on the mezzanine, between my desk and computer and modeling bench is the Dispatcher's bench. He mans two phones, each conntected to 8 phones on the two levels (upper and lower). Please someone, add his name to the Comments below.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:15 AM•Views: 191
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (6) Lum
Close up view of Dispatcher bench and train sheet. He recorded over 55 trains each day of the two day's operations of the meet. (not prototypical--UP would only average about 30-35 trains over Sherman Hill in a 7 hour day)
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:15 AM•Views: 187
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (7) Lum
Bob Ferguson, Darlene's husband, operating in another mole-hole, Downtown Ogden, Utah on the lower level. Downtown Ogden is SP territory; Bob asks the UP YM in Ogden nearby for a string of 8 or so cars to be delivered to his SP-UP interchange yard (behind him). Bob sets them out and pulls loads from Downtown Ogden for transshipment through his interchange yard back to UP. This can go on as long as the operator wants; there are 13 industries to serve by him, and UP can keep bringing him cars and picking them up all day if he wants. It is a real "switching puzzle" job (i.e., facing points/trailing points spurs to service.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:16 AM•Views: 186
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (8) Lum
This is a slightly different view. All the yards are level plywood, so cars don't roll. The level plywood sub base ends and the all spline roadbed starts here where the scenery starts up towards Sherman.
The silver roofed Cheyenne Stock Shed (stock yard to be built) is right where the spline roadbed and cardboard strip elevated scenery starts.
Someone donated the coal and ice company to us, and we have the other 5 designated by the blue temporary labels (see the last picture for the 5th one). We have a beautiful brass model of Cheyenne's Interlocking Tower A, but have not painted it yet.
The double rear doors face the 36 x 30 foot shop and storage building next door. Attached to it in the front is the 20 x 36 foot crew lounge.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:16 AM•Views: 186
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (9) Lum
This is Sherman Hill at the far end to the far right bench. The summit is near the beam against the wall. It is massive as it continues across the ceiling to suspend the over hanging, no-post-supports mezzanine. The second beam is just visible across the upper right hand corner of the photo. There are two routes up Sherman, the double track #1 and #2 against the backdrop, and the #3 Harriman Cutoff near the aisle. Dale junction joins these three tracks and is also the place where trains switch to left hand running down the west slope of Sherman Hill into Laramie, where they revert to right hand running.
Right to left are John DeCrescenzo (phone OSing to Dispatch), Ross Kudlick (furthest away from Virginia), Jim Jordan (New Hampshire/Camp Verde, AZ), Nick Bange (Cornville, AZ), and Allen Montgomery (Cottonwood, AZ).
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:16 AM•Views: 202
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Dick Zeren (Portola Valley, CA) is visible with throttle in hand as he hostles a steam locomotive in Laramie yard. |
Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (10) Lum
A view back toward the Cheyenne Steam Yard from the signal bridge at the Cheyenne west yard limits.
A bit of Ogden (our 4th major yard) is visible on the lower level. Downtown Ogden is on the lower level below the 4 tracks and west Cheyenne industries. The mole hole can be seen at the right edge of the photo.
A copy of the passenger train timetable is posted on the fascia edge just below Tower A. Only Passenger trains run to a timetable. The era is 1957, and although UP had a full timetable, it was interspersed with many extras. It was pretty much run as many freights as possible over the Sherman Hill-bowl of Wyoming-Wasatch Mountains down into Ogden. Sherman Hill and the Wasatch were bottlenecks with their 1.55% (Sherman, 35 miles) and 1-1.25% (Wasatch 135 miles). These grades were the reason UP built the huge Big Boys, Turbines, and the EMD DDA40X "Centennial." So we keep ops simple with no timetable for freights.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:17 AM•Views: 185
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Here is Bob Ferguson going down the 2 steps into the Downtown Ogden operation space.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:17 AM•Views: 182
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (12) Lum
Bench level shot of about 1/3 of the upper level.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:18 AM•Views: 188
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Bench level shot of the other half of the upper level over part of the Cheyenne Steam Yard. All the yards have 1/4" thick x 48 inch wide cork flooring under layment under the tracks. I built a cork roadbed cutting fixture with vacuum hold down to cut the cork into strips and then to split the strips lengthwise to use for roadbed.
The mezzanine is shown here. The two (with two on the other side not shown) beams suspended from the roof beams that support the mezzanine from the top can be seen here. Also on the upper left are the two heat pumps for air conditioning. They use 12 underground heat exchangers, piping down and back into 180 foot deep wells drilled under the parking lot.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:18 AM•Views: 186
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (14) Lum
An attempt to photograph most of the hugh 4,000 sq ft layout--well, the top level of it anyway. This is shot over the Cheyenne Steam Yard. One of the "City" trains is at the Cheyenne Depot.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:19 AM•Views: 188
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Fifth Invitational 0411_13 2019 (15) Lum
Part of Downtown Ogden with Bob Ferguson.
Capture Date: Apr 12, 2019 10:20 AM•Views: 182
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