P1001474 Laramie TT Roundhouse TD1 per sheet
This is our 9 stall roundhouse in Laramie. Even limiting it to 9 stalls for the model and putting the turntable close to the structure, still makes this a large model.
Sherman Hill is along the wall. This bench is the standard free standing bench with an aisle between it and the wall, but to make the bench surface of the top level wide enough to have a fair amount of space between the mains, Tracks #1 and #2, and Track #3, the Harriman Cutoff, we extended it over that aisle.
This extension to make a wide bench for Harriman, WY, the coaling station and water pipe about one half way up the Hill (seen between the burner sack for the Tie Treating Plant's sawmill, and the Laramie water tower), serves another important function for the layout. Every layout needs a "duck under," and this is ours. Actually it is a "stoop under" because it is about 40 feet long, and one must stoop a bit for 20 to 30 feet of it, even if you are less than six feet tall.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:05 AM•Views: 61
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P1001475 Larimie RndHs Tie Tr Plant TD1 see sht
Just at our beginning of the east end of the Laramie yard is the Tie Treating Plant where ties and piles are creosoted. The near building is the retort building. Inside it small narrow gauge dollies with ties and beams and poles are are pushed into retorts to be impregnated with creosote.
We occasionally try to creosote a skewer in hopes it will make uncoupling cars easier. One is leaning up against the retort building here.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:06 AM•Views: 61
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P1001477 Ti Tr Plant from E TD1 per sht
This is the Laramie Tie Treating Plant to the left of the mains #2 and #1 under the signal bridge. Track #1 is on the left,and it follows the original single track route over Sherman Hill found in 1867 by General Dodge (a few route improvements have been made since the 1860s, and all the rails have been relaid with heavier steel as the loco weight increased).
The right hand track is #2, the 1905 addition to double track the whole UP. On this western slope of the Hill, all traffic is left hand running to take advantage of the new and longer more gentle grade of #2. Our model has the non prototypical double crossover to help us at this Laramie end. Near the summit the change back to right hand running is made at Dale Junction where #3, the Harriman Cutoff, joins #1 and #2.
The far building of the Tie Treating Plant is the sawmill and waste burner. Untreated ties are stacked between the narrow gauge tracks, as are treated ties and long poles used by the MOW department in
Green River on our lower level.
The building with all the windows is the office over the fire department on the first floor. The Engine house is partly seen on the left. The Retort building is out of the picture on the far left.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:07 AM•Views: 59
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P1001476 Tie Tr Plant TD1 per sht
Here you can see the 3 open doors for access to the retorts. The engine house is in the center. Stacks of treated ties and poles are ready to be shipped out. Many go to the MOW instillation in Green River, WY.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:07 AM•Views: 56
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P1001479 Tie Tr Plant BETTER Sawmill TD1 as per sht
Freshly cut new ties. Why they put them on flat cars is unclear. They must be incoming from some remote mill off the Coalmont Branch up in the Mountains southwest of Laramie. They are also cut to size in the sawmill right behind these cars.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:08 AM•Views: 56
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P1001480 Monolith Cement TD1 per sheet
Going up Sherman Hill from Laramie on the western slope is the Monolith Reddy Mix concrete plant, right next to the Tie Treating Plant. They are Wyoming's biggest cement customer for the Ideal Cement plant on the lower level at Echo, Utah.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:08 AM•Views: 54
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P1001481 Monolith fNW TD1 per sht
Another view of Monolith with numerous details added.
Up on the mezzanine the far left workbench is Verryl's, the next table is the dispatcher's desk, then is my desk. Lenny and Allen have modeling benches further to the right.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:09 AM•Views: 52
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P1001483 Colores TD1 as per sheet
On up the western slope of Sherman Hill are the solitary Red Buttes.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:11 AM•Views: 53
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P1001485 Hermosa Tunnels fWTD1 per sheet
Hermosa Tunnel in the distance. The longer and newer left hand track up this side of "The Hill" is used for the milder grade.
When I first saw these nearly parallel tunnels I wondered why they did not just daylight them, if not originally when the first was bored for the original 1860's tunnel, or then for both when #2 was bored about 35 years later. Even if it is solid rock, the rise through which they are drilled is not all that thick, and the tunnels do not seem all that long. When I visited the area, driving from Laramie, then onto the UP service gravel road along side the tracks, from the west (opposite end from this photo) you can see the tunnels and the leading cut up to them. Then following the road up just slightly, and over the low rise, on this side from that road neither the cut nor the portals can be seen. I drove slowly to where it seemed to be way past where the cut and portals of the straight tunnels should be. I turned my truck around and drove back slowly, and still I could see no cut or portals on this west side. Finally, I got out of my pickup and walked up the slight rise toward where my senses said they should be. I walked maybe 75-100 feet, and they were visible over the edge of the cut! A few more steps and I was standing near the edge of the cut, and like the other side, it did not seem worth tunneling through! Why not just blast the cut all the way across?
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:12 AM•Views: 53
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P1001428 W Sh Hill Lar Hanna TD1
This is taken with me standing on the west steps to the mezzanine. The east steps can be seen about 73 feet away. The Laramie yard bench is on the center bench. On the right bench near is Medicine Bow, and Hanna, WY is in the distance. Medicine Bow was the center of the 1800's Sheep herding. The Red roof is The Virginian Hotel where Owen Wooster wrote the 1st book length western novel ("When you call me that, smile.") Hanna was one of the huge coal mining areas across southern Wyoming.
The bench in the center has the Laramie yard. (MOVE YOUR MOUSE over the photo, so the cursor turns into a little magnifying glass with a "+" in it. Click your mouse with that "+" visible and whatever part of the photo the cursor is on will be displayed in a magnified view. The "+" turns into a hand, so you can move the enlarged view around your screen.) This makes the Laramie coal tower and round house easily visible. And the Cheyenne bench with the buildings of west Cheyenne further away are easier to see.
If you use your imagination, between Wycon and the many buildings, is a large plot of yellow prairie grass, and nestled into it is the Wye at Speer.
We model in the late summer of 1957. That time of year the grass has turned yellow, if it was ever green. And there is no snow--well rarely, anyway.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 10:23 AM•Views: 54
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P1001453 W Chey TD1
Here I am standing in the building at the junction of the west end of Aisle 10, the Cheyenne aisle across the 50 ft width of the building, and the Aisle 2, perpendicular to 10. This is the west end of Cheyenne. Laramie was off the rear of my left hip across Aisle 2. To the right of the down sloping end of the backdrop is the Cheyenne yard. The yard bench is 84" (7 feet) wide, so operators need to be able to rerail trains from both sides of the bench.
Some of the structures here are out of place. This wide bench is a natural place to set buildings while the scenery is being completed elsewhere.
The Wye nestled in the ground scenery is at Speer (upper left). One leg is in front of the Wycon Chemical plant. Tracks #1 and #2 have started their climb up Sherman Hill just behind the large steel building on the right of the photo (the barn of the Cheyenne Stock Yard.).
The south corner of the triangular wye is just a few inches out of the left center edge of this shot, and the south track leaving the wye past the misplaced stock yard is the Denver track which connects to the small helix and down it to the main staging. So staging represents North Platte, Nebraska, and all points east, and, if entered from this "Denver track," them staging is Denver. If it is entered from the lower level Ogden end it is LA and Oakland/San Francisco.
The west corner of the wye, off the left edge) is the start of the Harriman Cutoff.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 10:50 AM•Views: 53
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Cheyenne depot trackside PPvv TD1 exp1.45
This id the Romanesque Cheyenne depot placed on the builder's layout. This is one of three I bought from the New York modeler, John Busa. I am happy to credit him for the three Depots, Rawlins, Cheyenne and Rock Springs,so I can credit him. I put all three in this folder so they are together.
This is his photo I assume on his layout.
I placed the depot on the edge of the 84 inch wide bench that holds my model of the Cheyenne steam yard. It is placed like John had it on his layout in this photo, just like it still is on the prototype. This is the track side. The other side, shown in the next picture is on the edge of the 84 inch wide bench so the front can be seen.
Photo by model builder, post processing by Verryl
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2010 12:31 PM•Views: 55
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Cheyenne depot Street side PPvv TD1 exp 1.36
The street side of the Cheyenne Depot I bought from the New York modeler John Busa as it sat on his layout. He contacted me as I asked when he saw these photos, so now I can credit him. They are terrific models, and we are prominently placing them on our Wyoming Division layout, so all sides of them can be seen.The others were the Rawlins Depot and the Rock Springs Depot. I put all three in this folder so they are together.
Photo by model builder, Post processing by Verryl (Note how focus stacking would have helped this image.
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2010 02:16 PM•Views: 59
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Rock Springs trackside 1 PPvv TD1~60% C&R to vert
This the Rock Springs Depot scratch built by modeler John Busa from New York as it sat on his layout. It is a fantastic model, and I am glad to give him credit. The others were the Rawlins Depot and the Cheyenne Depot. I put all three in this folder so they are together.
Photo by model builder. Note how the near tracks and the backdrop and street light are all badly out of focus. The meta data for this photo of his says it was shot at a rather large aperture of f/4.5, at 1/60 sec and ISO of 100. To have a larger depth of field, a very small aperture of f/16 or f/32 would have helped, but those would require a very slow shutter speed of a few seconds, which would require a tripod and cable or electronic shutter release and a higher (faster) ISO.
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2010 12:42 PM•Views: 56
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Rock Springs 3 TD1 exp1.58 PPvv Drastic Crop&Rot
End view of the Rock Springs Depot by John Busa. The others he built that we have were the Rawlins Depot and the Cheyenne Depot. I put all three in this folder so they are together. Photo by model builder. Photo has a very short depth of field (near and far objects badly out of focus).
Photo by model builder. Meta Data F/4, 1/60 second, ISO 100
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2010 12:44 PM•Views: 55
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