Ops 121419 16_9 CE (1)Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:20 AM•Views: 134No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ops 121419 16_9 (2) CECapture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:21 AM•Views: 131No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ops 121419 16_9 (3) CECapture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:22 AM•Views: 129No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Op Session of 12/14/19: This view is of both slopes of Sherman HIl (east slope on the far bench, west slop on the near bench), and is taken from the 7 foot wide view mezzanine that is suspended over the 75 foot length of the layout building. The mezzanine has no supports under it except at the ends, so there are no posts to obstruct the benches on the floor. Here the first train has passed the redimix plant on the outskirts of Laramie and is stopped at the ABS "Mother May I" ABS signal controlled by the Laramie YM Guy Forsythe in the vest. The Laramie tie treating plant borders the tracks here.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:23 AM•Views: 153
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Op Session of 12/14/19: The engineer watches the ABS signal bridge for his signal to turn from red to yellow. This signal is manually controlled by the YM to meter the input to his Laramie yard, so that he can set the route for the train through his yard. The coal and water stop with line shacks at Harriman, Wyoming can be seen just over Bob Ellis' head. Bob is the Passenger Train Superintendent on the Wyoming Division. He manages the Streamliner City Trains of San Francisco, LA, Portland, and St. Louis as well as a few mixed trains each session.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:23 AM•Views: 149
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Op Session of 12/14/19: This is the opposite side of the 50 foot wide building showing the Cheyenne yard above staging. Fred Eisenthall (red shirt) works Cheyenne while Ted Maas takes his train past Wamsutter, Wyoming. Below Ted's bench is part of Rock Springs, Wyoming on the lower level of the free standing mushroom design benches.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:24 AM•Views: 157
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Op Session of 12/14/19: Same view with Lenny Wyatt, head electrician-3D printer-laser etcher-and master model maker who is passing. Lenny built the steel buildings (there is a separate shop and crew lounge building next door. One of the 16 phones that connect to the Dispatcher on the mezzanine can be seen also at Fred's elbow.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:24 AM•Views: 151
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Op Session of 12/14/19: This shows about 1/2 of the upper level of the layout, with parts of some of the lower level visible. On the top level from right to left are Cheyenne (which continues across the top of the photo), then Wamsutter at the east end of the Harriman siding (center siding), the Red Desert region, and Rawlins, Wyoming with the Sinclair Refinery. Part of Cheyenne's Frontier Refinery is at Fred's right. On the lower level can be seen the western end of Rock Springs. The east end is in the last photo.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:25 AM•Views: 156
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Op Session of 12/14/19: This is the same view as the last, except I got Nick on the lower level behind the main helix 2x6 structure to look up. Nick is very valuable to us. He works 2 or 3 days to help set up for each monthly operating session, placing trains in starting positions other than the main staging (lower level, far right), cleaning track, and emptying coal hoppers around the layout for the 3 Coal Extra jobs are ready to receive new loads.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:25 AM•Views: 148
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Ops 121419 16_9 (10)
This is a long view of the rest of the upper level not captured in the last two photos. The industries in west Cheyenne include a steel supply, Wyoming State Liquor, the stock yards beside the tracks, and Wycon Chemical, a producer of fertilizer from Wyoming's ample supply of trona (soda) mined (on the layout) near Green River on the lower level. Shown on the far right are tracks #1 and #2, and #3 (leaving Speer Wye), all going up Sherman Hill. The next bench brings #1 and #2 back down into Laramie where the YM and engineers are clustered. The coal town of Hanna is to the far left under the viewing mezzanine.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:45 AM•Views: 148
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Slightly different view showing Bob Burke who is the Cheyenne Train Master, operating the 60 Tortoise switch machines in the complex Cheyenne yard.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:45 AM•Views: 142
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Ops 121419 16_9 (12)
Another attempt to show the entire upper level of the layout. This is again is a view over Cheyenne, but from the other end of the steam yard, and the classification yard it to the extreme left. The next bench to the right of the Cheyenne Classification tracks has Wamsutter and the center siding between the E and W mains. This Harriman Siding is over 17 feet long to accommodate our longest trains of loco and tender plus 30 cars and a caboose. The cabooses are necessary, because it is 1957.
The arcing support over the yard holds a miniature video camera to peer down to the transfer table between the car shop buildings. After all this bench is 74 inches (7 feet) wide. That explains the use of 60 Tortoise switch machines mentioned on the last photo for the turnouts beyond reach from the aisle.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 09:47 AM•Views: 145
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Ops 121419 16_9 (13)
This is taken from the opposite corner of the building, and it shows the other half of the upper level of the layout, plus some of the lower level. On the lower level to the right is Evanston, WY just past the two mile long tunnels #2 and #3 (Aspin and Altamont).
Danny brings his train out of Wyoming into Utah, having just gone through the Wasatch Tunnel (#4) and one of the two Curvo Tunnels (#6). Curvo Tunnel #5 is on the other track, but cannot be seen with the lower level tucked underneath the upper bench.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 10:54 AM•Views: 144
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Ops 121419 16_9 (14)
Pretty much the same view. In the foreground is the mountain through which Aspin and Altamount tunnels pass, and the tracks can be seen in the open just past the west portals.
Some of the 11 foot long main helix can be seen on the far right. he far corner of the room is just to the right of the window. The layout fills the 50 x 75 foot one room building
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 10:55 AM•Views: 147
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Ops 121419 16_9 (15)
This is Echo, Utah with the Ideal Cement plant that made the iconic Red Devil brand of bagged cement. Here the operator is switching 2 hoppers of coal across the trestle to leave at Ideal. He is using the Echo steam goat, but his road consist is a pair of RS-2's visible under the coal tower. Echo has a 3 track yard (17 feet long tracks), and one of these tracks is the beginning of the Park City Branch. It is the outer track that continues on to hidden Park City Utah. The steep grade of this hidden track can be seen. The Park City Local job leaves Ogden (far end of this bench), switches Echo, continues to Park City, switches it, and returns to Ogden, leaving any east bound cars at Echo for the Ogden-Green River Local.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 10:56 AM•Views: 147
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