P1000851 per sheet 2
Oops. Sharon walked past the camera. This shows her motion while walking down the aisle. I left it in this batch to illustrate how my Panasonic Lumix G9 camera works to make a focus stacked image. With the camera set to "Post Focus" it takes a 1 second video of about 30 frames while the autofocus mechanism focused on the extreme foreground and then progressively out to the farthest reaches of the image. Then I recall the video and after it runs its 1 second playback, I press in turn 3 touch sensitive "buttons" on the back screen that causes the camera to examine each frame of the 30 frame video to save the in-focus parts to aggregate them into a final JPG image.
"Ghost" images of parts of Sharon can be seen as she passes up the aisle. Her motion is obvious in the swinging of her right arm. Each image of her arm, and presumably the black blotches, are in focus as she moves through space and time (as a physicist-couldn't resist using that phrase).
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 11:22 AM•Views: 68
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P1000853 per sheet 2
Here the tank car has been spotted, and the switch engine has retreated to the center siding to await the through train's passing. As the through train approached, the switch engine continued its work, moving from the other main back to the siding, and coupled to the two box cars bound for the freight house within the depot. But now it sits in place until it the through train passes, and it is safe to proceed to the FH via the same main now being used by the through train.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 11:27 AM•Views: 69
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P1000858 per sheet 2
Here the through train has passed and the local switch engine has reached the freight house to spot the end box car to be partially unloaded ten loaded with more LCL freight for the local train (Cheyenne to Green River Local turn).
The second box car just behind the tender probably goes to one of the businesses on the other side of the tracks, or perhaps it was just used as a "handle" for switching the smaller box car.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 11:49 AM•Views: 65
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P1000876 from 854mp4 per sheet 2
The through train on the east bound main passes the local holding on the center siding. The local has coupled to the two box cars and separated them from the local train, and when the through train passes, it will move the end box car over the east bound main and on to the freight house. The larger box car next to the local's tender is just a handle to move the smaller box car. The "handle' will be zig zagged from the freight house across both mains and the center siding to one of industry sport on the extreme right of the image.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 11:31 AM•Views: 74
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P1000862 per sheet 2
This eastern slope of Sherman Hill shows the signal at the eastern end of the Harriman Cutoff. The dual head signal shows a yellow (center bulb) on the upper head over a red (lower bulb) on the lower head. These aspects are for these unoccupied blocks--the right hand track (a complete block) and the single track ahead (the next block beyond the double track). These aspects indicate that the turnout at this end of the double track block right hand track, or block,
I have to check this at the layout to get it correct.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 12:02 PM•Views: 69
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P1000879 per sheet 2 Adj G D&B12%
Looking up the west end of the Harriman Cutoff in an elevated view that shows Tracks #1 and #2 in the distance. Notable for the signals are the 3 head signal mast facing Track #1 and the 2 head mast for the Cutoff for trains about to traverse Dale Junction. Here #3 must junction to #2, which is the left hand track, the track used west of Dale into Laramie, i.e., changing from west bound on the bidirectional Harriman Cutoff to the west bound left hand running Track #2. In other words, from Dale down the western slope into Laramie is left hand running.
This left hand track from Dale down into Laramie is the original 1860's route (with heavier 1957 track rails), which was steeper than the newer 1905 Track #2 which is from 1905 is also left hand running east bound. The change of running to left hand between Dale and Laramie west bound, or from Laramie east bound to Dale takes advantage of the newer more gentle grade up the west slope.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 12:05 PM•Views: 38
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P1000867CROP PP per sht 2
The signal bridge at the east yard limit of Green River, Wyoming. Green River and Laramie have "mother-may-I" signals near both the east and west yard limits. A pair of single head masts would have done at these locations, but to emphasize how important these yard are to operations, signal bridges were used. Cheyenne was also so honored on its east yard limit, but not the west end which borders on staging. Ogden, while important also has only signals on a mast at it's eastern limit; the western limit borders the other end of staging.
The "mother-may-I" signals at these six locations are for YM convenience. The aspect to a train entering one of those limits can only be changed from red to a yellow (proceed with caution) aspect by asking the YM there for permission to enter, and to do so the train must stop. When the YM can accommodate the train, he presses a button on his fascia which changes the signal from red to yellow. After 30 seconds the signal turns back to red automatically.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 12:27 PM•Views: 68
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P1000936 PP per sheet 2 LEDs
Signal at west end of Green River. This is one of the 4 major yards (not counting Staging which is "off" the layout), so it is a mother-may-I signal that is normally red. It can be changed to yellow (proceed with caution) only after the engineer asks the YM for permission to enter "his" yard, and when the YM is ready to accommodate the train, he can press a momentary electrical switch which changes the signal to yellow. After 30 seconds it reverts to red again automatically, so the YM does not have to change it back to red.
There is no scenery here or on most of the lower level yet. The double main tracks will have a bridge over the Green River shown here on the photo backdrop.
The two track siding on the right is part of the Westvaco trona (soda) mine at just wesst of Green River. Here covered hoppers are loaded for shipment to Wycon Chemical, a large fertilizer plant just southwest of Cheyenne, and to other locations east of Cheyenne and west of Ogden, i.e., off the layout (staging).
Capture Date: Oct 15, 2020 12:39 PM•Views: 35
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The arc at the upper left corner is from where the backdrop is curved top to bottom to meet the end-of-the-bench backdrop which is curved left to right to curve around the full radius of the this and the adjoining bench. |
P1000870Crop&Rot per Sht 2
This is the signal bridge near the east yard limits of Laramie. From Dale Junction on Sherman hill down the western slope to Laramie is left hand running, so the signal head is over the left hand (west bound) track. The east bound signal head (that blends into the creosoted ties stacked in the tie treating plant) is likewise over the other track, which is for left hand running from Laramie up to Dale. All trains, left and right running, switch tracks at the non-prototypical double crossover shown here.
This signal is automatically set to normally red. The upper unlit signal is yellow. It is selected by the YM manually when he is ready to receive the train into his yard, after he has cleared the tracks for the train to use. After 30 seconds of yellow the red signal automatically changes back to red. These "mother-may-I" signals are all controlled by the respective YM's at Cheyenne Laramie, Green River, and Ogden as explained in the last image; they are not automatically controlled by train occupancy.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 12:31 PM•Views: 69
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P1000873 C&R per sht 2
The east end of Laramie signal bridge.The visible lighted green signal is normally green, because it is an automatic block signal (ABS) that shows green if the next block (beyond the signal) is unoccupied. The Laramie YM has no manual control of this signal exiting his yard.
This shows all of the Laramie Tie Treating Plant. the grey nearest building houses the 3 creosote retorts that treats the ties. The far building is the saw mill which saws timber into ties and other construction poles. Some untreated ties and poles are stacked around the mill. The smaller building with the upper story windows houses the office (2nd floor) above the fire house on the ground level. The engine house is the brown structure. All the plant tracks are narrow gauge. The ties and poles are carried into the retorts on narrow gauge cars with open sides and ends, sort of flat cars with vertical side rails.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 12:35 PM•Views: 65
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P1000893 Sht 3 LookTRNP
"Mother May I" signals at west Laramie Yard Limits. It would have been more consistent to have had a signal bridge here, but I neglected to plan for it. Red shows normally for all trains entering Laramie from this direction. the must stop and call (holler) to the Laramie Yardmaster (YM) to get permission to enter his yard. This is normal model railroad operating practice for all busy yards with a permanent YM. this practice gives the YM time to inquire about yard requirements from that engineer, then he can plan, and set yard turnouts for a smooth and efficient entry. On the Wyoming Division, the YM has an electrical switch that instantanly changes the aspect to yellow. After about 30 seconds, the circuit times out and the aspect returns to red, so the YM does not have to attend to it; he is nearly always too busy and harried to wait for a train to enter just to reset a signal.
Capture Date: Oct 15, 2020 11:32 AM•Views: 35
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Ops 121419 16_9 (26) PPper sht2
Here in a photo taken by Paul Saumure during the January 2020 operating session Danny Lawson brings Challenger 3985 and a manifest freight into Ogden under the signal bridge. He is calling the dispatcher to report his position and time. The white Ogden Yard Limits sign is on the fascia just beyond the telephone to the dispatcher.
This is another "mother-may-I" signal into Ogden. Danny stopped and notified the Ogden YM he was at the yard limits and proceeded under the bridge only after the YM changed the signal from its normally red to a proceed with caution yellow.
The lower level of the mushroom layout design has very little scenery.
That is Bob Burke standing on a stool in the Downtown Ogden "mole hole" to gain access to the Wycon Chemical tracks. Downtown Ogden on the lower level is a 13 industry "switching puzzle". It is SP territory, and receives UP cars from the 3 track interchange yard to the left of the Challenger.
Capture Date: Dec 14, 2019 11:12 AM•Views: 65
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P1000889 Sht 3 TRNP Look
This is the brick Tower A just inside the Cheyenne west yard limits. It is a brass model Allen and I got when I bought a large collection of brass locos and other models from Wayne Hammer, a retired USAF sargent/UP brass model collector, who put in most of his 20 years in the orient.
Lenny has painted and detailed it inside and out after extensive research as to the colors, even down to the interior details.
Capture Date: Oct 15, 2020 11:25 AM•Views: 40
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P1000885 Per sht 3 LOOK TRNP
Tower A just inside the Cheyenne west yard limits. The signal bridge has 2 greens showing for west bound tracks. The left green is over the 4th from the right track leaving Cheyenne. It serves Wycon Chemical, and on to the Speer Wye, finally connecting to the Harriman Cutoff (Track #3). These are out of view.
The 5th track at the left edge is a siding for the Cheyenne stock yard. The corner of its building is just barely showing.
On the backdrop is the Indian Village Motor Lodge, which mom and dad owned. It was the original motel to have a teepee which was the office. It was a 38 unit motel in 5 buildings in a U shape with the teepee/office at the front center. I spent the years of age 10-12 there. These tracks were visible from the motel. Dad was a pipefitter at the Cheyenne Frontier Refinery, which we also model on the layout on the other end of Cheyenne (east). Dad was on the crew that built Frontier at the beginning of WW II to make hi test aviation fuel where Japan could not bomb it.
Capture Date: Oct 15, 2020 11:15 AM•Views: 38
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P1000904 Look TRNP Sheet 3
Another view of Tower A, the interlocking tower near the west yard limits of Cheyenne. Notice that this brass model, that Lenny Wyatt detailed and painted, has a basement. The basement windows can be seen on the side of the building, with their lower half below ground level in window wells. Window wells are required by current building codes for finished basements to provide a safe means of egress in case of fire or disaster.
Basements were nearly always part of any building in Cheyenne. Without a basement a building risked being blown away by the wind that often blew 60 mph steady 24 hours a day for days or even 2 weeks at a time.
The track and model of Tower A sit on 1/4" thick unsceniced flooring underlayment which we used for cork roadbeds or over all of each yard. It cam in 4 foot wide by 50 foot rolls, and we cut it with a fixture I built. It is shown in an early picture in the model railroad master folder on this site.
Capture Date: Oct 15, 2020 11:54 AM•Views: 43
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