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Hanna Coal Marshaling Yard and employee houses
This also shows the Hanna stock yard for resting stock.
Old US Highway 30 crosses over the tracks here, and the white flat-building in the distance is the famous Virginian Hotel, where Owen Wister wrote the first ever full length western novel, "The Virginian." According to Wikipedia, "The novel revolves around the Virginian and the life he lives. As well as describing the Virginian's conflict with his enemy, Trampas, and his romance with the pretty schoolteacher, Molly Stark Wood, Wister weaves a tale of action, violence, hate, revenge, love, and friendship."
The 4 axle locomotive is permanently stationed in Hanna, because the curves in the mine region are too sharp for 6 axle power.
Capture Date: Dec 17, 2020 02:02 PM•Views: 90
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The 3 coal mines modeled for Hanna. The Hanna Depot is at the very edge of the photo near the top, and the coal marshaling yard from the previous picture starts at the center right.
Mains #1 and #2 curve inside of the coal region to the Sinclair Refinery that is on the east side of Rawlins, Wyoming.
Across the far aisle is the Red Desert and the tracks curve around the end cap into Wamsutter, Wyoming, ad of course, everyone one knows where Wamsutter is.
Clamped at the top of the backdrop is our two faced fast clock that Bob Ellis provided for use by the passenger train operators. bob is the Passenger Superintendent and he has the 4 City trains, Cities of LA,San Francisco, ST. Louis, and Portland, plus two mixed trains running on a timetable.
Capture Date: Jun 5, 2020 11:55 AM•Views: 62
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This is Wamsutter, Wyoming with its center "Harriman" siding. Here the local switch engine has pulled a tank car off the near end of the train, and backed it down the siding to the right (toward the buildings there), then uncoupled from it and run around it to couple onto the other end of the tank car. His plan was to push the tank car to the end of the spur near the trucks, but he had too go back to the center siding to clear the man for an approaching train on the right hand main.
The foreground ABS signals are at the start of blocks on each of the mains. The westbound main (right track) has two heads. The upper head is for the main, and the lower head if for the route to the center siding via the turnout and then the wye turnout.
The signal facing the other way is for the east bound track, and a through freight is approaching from the distance.
On the top of the next bench is the Cheyenne classification yard above the main staging accessed via the small helix
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 11:05 AM•Views: 61
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UP Stock Yard at Bitter Creek, Wyoming, just east of Rock Springs (between Rock Springs and the Main Helix on the lower level).
There is also a speeder house at the signals at an ABS block boundary. Lenny 3D printed the speeder house. The woodie is for a California surfer who got really lost smoking those funny cigarettes.
Capture Date: Oct 29, 2020 12:32 PM•Views: 80
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Bitter Creek, Wyoming sheep loading and speeder outside of speeder shack very near ABS block boundary--see ABS signals
Capture Date: Oct 29, 2020 12:29 PM•Views: 82
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UP Coal Company Mine #4 tipple in east Rock Springs, Wyoming, "F" on the green track lower level track plan. The two switchers is one of the pairs of UP switch engines at Rock Springs. These are NW-2's, amd they are on the Rock Springs yard lead.
Capture Date: Oct 29, 2020 12:14 PM•Views: 59
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The ABS signal bridge at the east yard limits of Green River, Wyoming. This is a "mother-may-I" signal which is normally red to stop all trains. Engineers must verbally notify the yardmaster or his helper, the Yard Foreman, to gain admittance into the yard. As soon as the YM is ready, he will press a momentary electrical switch to turn the signal from red to yellow over red, and then the engineer can move his train into the yard on the tracks set by the YM or Yard Foreman. This required stop and small delay assures orderly movements within the yard, so the yard does not get swamped with traffic. The signal stays yellow/red for about 30 seconds, then changes back to the normally red aspect.
There are such manually YM operated signals at both ends of Green River, Laramie, and at west Cheyenne and east Ogden. The main staging borders between east Cheyenne and west Ogden.
Capture Date: Sep 24, 2020 12:27 PM•Views: 55
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Walthers roundhouse in Green River Wyoming built by Lenny. Three kits joined as designed to be by Walthers.
Capture Date: Oct 29, 2020 12:42 PM•Views: 103
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"Mother-may-I" signal at the west end of Green River. This is a normally red signal which the GR YM controls with a fascia momentary switch. Trains approaching it must stop at the normally red, and notify the GR YM to get permission to enter the yard on a route set by the YM. When the YM is ready for the train, he pressed the switch button to change the aspect to yellow over red, and the train can proceed into Green River at reduced speed. Some of the YM controlled signals do have a green, but they are never used on the "Mother-may-I" signals.
The coal hoppers are left by a coal drag train that supplies all the lower level (green track plan) coal towers and other users on that level. The siding is part of the Alco trona (soda) mine complex.
There is also a coal drag job on the upper level that supplies hoppers from Hanna to all the upper coal towers and users. Each of the coal drag jobs takes about 3-4 hours to complete, including the time it takes to return the empty hoppers back to the mines.
Capture Date: Oct 15, 2020 12:39 PM•Views: 54
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There is a bit of a dark corner of the layout at Dale. Sharon helped me set up 4 LED lights for some shots. The other LED panel is behind the camera.
The cut at the lower right of the picture is for Track #3, the Harriman Cutoff.
The yellow electrical switch panel to her left controls the unreachable Tortoise machines at Dale. The panel face is a schematic map of the Junction.
Capture Date: Dec 17, 2020 01:36 PM•Views: 61
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Sunrise over Courthouse Butte and Bell Rock from our front porch in Sedona. To the left of Courthouse is Twin Buttes, and to the right of Bell Rock is Castle Rock.--Christmas Eve, 2020.
Capture Date: Dec 24, 2020 07:13 AM•Views: 61
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