Ops 121419 16_9 (31)
I maintain that the reason few kids are interested in model railroading, is that we don't let them run trains. This is a 6 year old who just visited this day with his parents. Notice he has the throttle in his hands. He is standing on a kiddy cart for engineers I built. It is a 3 sided box bolted to a flat mover's dolly. On the dolly down low is a cinder block for ballast. There is a shelf for the child to stand on that places his eyes about 5' 10" off the floor. His parent pushes him around and forms the closure to the open end of the box, so he cannot fall out. That is the parents' responsibilities, to push him and hold him safely.
This kid ran a train for nearly an hour while I walked in front of him and set the turnouts and gave him verbal orders on speed, stop and go.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 03:05 PM•Views: 83
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Ops 121419 16_9 (32)
Don't tell me kids can't get interested in trains! Even the boring part of the main helix was a big deal to him.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 03:06 PM•Views: 87
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P1000409 PP Sky Replace
This is a closeup of Wamsutter with the polycarb shield removed. Notice the mezzanine is missing. This was taken and processed by my close friend, Paul Saumure, who turned me on to both the Panasonic Lumix G9 camera and Luminar, a post processing program. Luminar 4 has an automatic sky replacement function, and that is why there is no mezzanine or building structure or lights
Upload Date: Jan 2, 2020 03:14 PM•Views: 102
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P1000415 CONT EN LOOK_SKY REP_CROPCapture Date: Nov 14, 2019 12:26 PM•Views: 86No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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P1000417 C&S SR Look Crop 16_9
Close up of Lenny's Rawlins Freight House.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 12:28 PM•Views: 85
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P1000422 Hanna Mines_Yard_Bkgd 2 Other Benches
The Hanna, WY coal mines. The 3 track marshaling yard plus a runaround track is at the right. Allen Montgomery did the trestle and mine structures. Across the left aisle is Cheyenne, and Rawlins is on the other side of this same bench. Across the aisle straight ahead is the Red Desert/Wamsutter WY bench.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 12:45 PM•Views: 91
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P1000428 CONTRST EN_LAR HANNA MID_CHEY DISTANT 16_9
This is another in camera focus stacked photo. Note how sharp the focus is throughout the deep field. The far corner of the room is about 55 feet away. The wide angle shot (12 mm eq to 24mm full frame) was taken at a shutter speed of 1/60 sec, at a nearly wide open aperture of f/4.
Shown if the Laramie Tie Treating Plant behind the Laramie round house and the Laramie yard around the end of the bench. Hanna with lots of coal hoppers is across the aisle with the mines to the left of that yard. The Cheyenne steam yard is across the aisle above the yellow switch panels.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 01:35 PM•Views: 81
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P1000430 LContrastEn LSuperSharp 16_9
Just east of the Laramie Tie Treating Plant is the Monolith RediMix plant. It is just inside the yard limits of Laramie. Allen built the buildings from scratch, and the mixing mechanism is made by Lenny from 3D formed parts.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 01:38 PM•Views: 83
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P1000436 LCE LSS C16_9
This is the reason I switched from my Nikon D7000 to the Lumix G9--to use the automatic focus stacking for the long benches of the Wyoming Division. This shot has much better and uniform focus over the whole depth of field than with my manually focus stacked photos taken by using Helicon to stack photos focused on the wire tray door handles which are about 4 feet apart, that is a "stack" of 5-7 photos focused about every 4 feet. The G9 stacked the images of a 1-2 second long video at 30 to 60 frames per second. And with the 6 axis image stabilization, no tripod is needed--it is hand held.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 02:01 PM•Views: 85
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P1000440 LCE LSS C16_9
Another Focus Stack with the G9. From camera t the wall is about 57 feet.
This is both sides of Sherman Hill, the east slope on the right (notice tracks #1 and #2 on the far right, rear of the bench, and the Harriman Cutoff, Track #3 on the front of the bench.
The tie treating plant is on the near left, and the redimix plant is beyond that. The west portal of one of the two Hermosa Tunnels is visible in the cut of the mountain.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 02:06 PM•Views: 87
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P1000442 SUPER SHARP LOOK_CROP
This is the Speer Wye about 5 miles southwest of Cheyenne. As per the prototype, the left track is the Borie Cutoff part of the Harriman Cutoff Track #3, the alternate route up Sherman Hill. The curved track further from the camera heads toward Denver. The near track is UP's preferred route from all points west to Denver, and it bypasses Cheyenne. On the layout Denver is the staging yard (if entered via this track). Thus the Denver track folds back to run on the edge of the Cheyenne steam yard bench, and that is the only way to get it to "Denver," i.e., Staging. Ideally it would become hidden track and run under the Cheyenne bench, but that bench is faced with the 13 panels of 60 electrical switches for the Tortoise machines out in the unreachable middle of the 74" wide bench. So our Denver track runs along the very edge of the bench, but it does not connect to Cheyenne, so it is in fact a distinct route to staging=Denver.
Capture Date: Nov 14, 2019 02:13 PM•Views: 81
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