DSC01706
Lots of junk and scrap lumber just dumped around the area. It's coal mining--neatness is not important.
Capture Date: Apr 26, 2019 01:07 PM•Views: 55
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DSC01707
Explosives shed?? Isolated and well labeled. Junk scattered around is a nice modeling touch.
Capture Date: Apr 26, 2019 01:07 PM•Views: 54
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DSC01712
This is the stub loading track for one of the Hanna mines. the access track climbs in a broad loop around this structure and continues up to the last modeled mine. That continued track can be seen at the top left of the photo.
Capture Date: Apr 26, 2019 01:11 PM•Views: 58
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DSC03126
The stock pens built by UP in Bitter Creek, east of Rock Springs, to facilitate cattle and sheep loading. The overpass is US Highway 30, part of the original Lincoln Highway from times Square to San Francisco. It roughly followed the route of the UP Transcontinental Railroad, but occasionally deviated from it where a steeper route was feasible. Cars could climb steeper grades than trains.
Capture Date: Mar 6, 2020 03:16 PM•Views: 60
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Fence
Very realistic looking barbed wire fence. The verticle separators between posts were always made from random thin tree branches, so they were never straight. both of my sets of grandparents homesteaded in SW Colorado in 1917, coming up from Oklahoma by horse drawn wagons. Down there the only trees on the prairie were stubby cedars (anyway, that's what they called them). The grew widely spaced on certain hills about 1 days wagon ride away further west in Colorado. That was the only local trees or wood available. I don't remember any of those twigs used in fences this way, but larger tree trunks that were twisted and knarled were used for fence posts. But I imagine the UP could freight in straight lumber for posts, and they probably participated, at least, in fencing. No railroader would want to hit a cow.
Capture Date: May 25, 2018 02:35 PM•Views: 58
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Ferguson Merchantile 2
Ferguson Mercantile in Wamsutter scratch built by Allen. I'd think it was Christmas time by the sacks of mail. OTOH that is more mail that Wamsutter gets or sends out in 4 or 5 Christmasses, maybe 4-5 years!
Capture Date: Jul 27, 2018 03:37 PM•Views: 58
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IMG_0269
A train emerging from the east bound (left hand running) track from Cheyenne through Dale Junction and down the western slope of Sherman Hill toward Laramie.
Capture Date: Sep 4, 2017 11:21 PM•Views: 63
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MVI_0268
I think that is a Challenger going west through the one train length of double track at Harriman, Wyoming on the Harriman Cutoff, Track #3. On the UP such sections of double track are a single main plus a siding, but this section was about 1/3 of the length of track from the Speer Wye just SE of Cheyenne to Dale. When we put in ABS signals, instead of 3 one-train length ABS blocks, we made 2 longer ABS blocks with the main plus the siding making up one block, and the main plus the part of the main parallel to the siding forming the other block.
This is a good down the track shot that shows Harriman, the line shacks and the coal tower, in a way they cannot be seen from the aisle.
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:18 AM•Views: 79
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MVI_0272
2555 leads a local freight train eastbound for Cheyenne across the crossover at Dale changing from left hand running back to right hand running.
Allen and Lenny worked on the scenery here separately at different times. Allen did the terrain and ground cover and hillocks of pink granite and Lenny did a lot of the rock carving and staining of the the rock castings and the line and fence details at Dale.
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:25 AM•Views: 67
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MVI_0274
Here comes #2555, having picked up speed down toward Cheyenne.
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:49 AM•Views: 63
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MVI_0275
An eastbound local freight pulled by a 2-8-2 Mikado, renamed as a "MacArthur" after the Pearl Harbor attack, just crests the Hill just past the Sherman Depot just out of the scene to the left. It is properly on the right hand track east of Dale Junction.
Note the fields of snow fences, hand built by Allen and Lenny. Nowadays, Lenny spits them out on his 3D printer.
The Harriman coal tower on Track #3 (Harriman Cutoff) is on the right. The actual UP tracks #1 and #2 here are miles apart from #3
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:49 AM•Views: 58
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MVI_0276
East bound 2555 local, having just cleared Dale Junction and crossed over to Track #2 from Track #1 (#2 is left hand running from Laramie up to Dale) continues up to the summit of Sherman just to the right of this view. The Sherman Depot is just to the right of this scene, and from there it is downhill on the eastern slope of Sherman Hill down to Cheyenne.
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:30 AM•Views: 56
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MVI_0277
2555 local descending eastbound past the Sherman Hill Depot.
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:23 AM•Views: 52
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MVI_0281
A pair of Challengers leads a westbound freight train up Sherman Hill from Cheyenne to Dale.
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:33 AM•Views: 48
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MVI_0282
Big Boy at good speed up the western slope of Sherman Hill on the point of a PFE Special and just entering the left hand portal of the Hermosa tunnels #1. From Laramie up to Dale is left hand running to take advantage of the milder grade of the newer Track #2 opened in 1951
On the Wyoming Division Layout these 30 reefer trains are high superiority ("Specials") just below passenger trains.
I believe Allen formed the mountain and the portals, and Lenny carved, weathered, and stained the "rocks.'
Upload Date: Jul 30, 2020 10:45 AM•Views: 51
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