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12 AA View of Speer Wye from mezzanine. Note stoop under steps and lower level Ogden industrial area access hole in upper level deck. Spline roadbed starts at curve just beyond Cheyenne Tower A turnouts (5 crossovers connecting 4 tracks). Speer is the wye, and Denver route is down past turnout near the tape measure.
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:54 PM•Views: 1501
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12A Chey Pass House Brick Wall and Windows
12A Passenger House walls of Cheyenne roundhouse. Lenny drew them on AutoCad then colored them and printed them to match photos of the Cheyenne prototype. There will be a separate section for the Freight House with more stalls, just like the prototype.
Capture Date: May 11, 2013 11:16 AM•Views: 995
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Just simply spectacular. Love the sheer size, and the level of detail you are trying to achieve. Great stuff. |
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12B Early shot of Lenny Wyatt's Passenger House (Passenger part of full roundhouse) showing scratch built wood framework and roofs. West bound tracks are the five to the left beside the Passenger House, and the Omaha track is the single east bound track between the Passenger house and the soon be be built Freight house. In other words, the Freight House will be all the tracks not into the Passenger House except for the left hand 5 and the right hand one.
Capture Date: Apr 20, 2013 01:06 PM•Views: 969
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13 View "east" into Cheyenne through Tower A area from Sherman Hill direction (west of Cheyenne). Round house will be just beyond the coal tower. Passenger House is back on Lenny's work bench.
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:42 PM•Views: 941
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13A Higher view east into Cheyenne showing more of the steam engine facility. We are modeling all of it in HO. Coal tower shown just east of turntable and Passenger House. Freight House for freight train locos to come. Large building is the back shop that connects to the Freight House at one end.
Upload Date: Aug 5, 2013 09:59 AM•Views: 955
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13B Cheyenne Turntable and Passenger house (left) and Freight House (right) locations. Large Back Shop building is 5 Walther kits built together as one for the back shop. This view is a better look at the Omaha track east past the Passenger House and past the Back Shop, and at the 5 tracks onto the turntable, 4 out of the coal chute and one that bypasses it.
Capture Date: Mar 8, 2013 03:06 PM•Views: 1006
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14 Further east view of Cheyenne steam facility. Atttached to the rear of the Machine shop is the Tank, Tin, and Boiler Shops (larger building with sky light and attached to it is the Electrical Shop (only east end visible). To left is Steel Car Shop and Storehouse and the Wheel Shop and Tank Shop separated by the Transfer Table, and beside it is the 2 stall car shop. Not visible is the Wood Working Shop and other sheds served by the 90 foot turntable (not visible here).
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:44 PM•Views: 914
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15 Far east end of Cheyenne on top of staging (lower level) bench. Cheyenne or East Passenger staging yard on left and Cheyenne freight classification yard on right. This is an early picture showing location of 90 foot turntable (in back shop area).
Capture Date: Dec 5, 2012 02:56 PM•Views: 924
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16 East Cheyenne Yard in distance with staging below. Power house (two stacks) yard office to its right, and to left of it is the Blacksmith Shop. Electrical panel on upper facia controls access to classification yard from Arrival/Departure tracks foreground behind Machine Shop building. Small panel to turn on or off passenger tracks on Cheyenne Passenger Staaging area on far side of top bench.
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:44 PM•Views: 905
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17 More panels. All turnouts on wide Cheyenne bench (and others hard to reach) are Tortoise machine controlled, and Lenny drew and made the panels which tilt out to reveal the wiring. The rocker switches are accessible through 1" finger holds to avoid being bumped, an idea I stole from Rick Fortrin in Santa Clara. Green LEDs light up for the route selected (straight or diverging), and some pairs of turnouts are synchronized to operate from one switch if they always have to be aligned together.
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:49 PM•Views: 929
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18 More panels and some LEDs can be seen illuminted for the panels powered up. The corked area on the lower level is to be "North Platte," that is the arrival/departure yard in staging to feed trains up the small helix onto the upper level into east Cheyenne as if coming from Nebraska (think Chicago; Marysville, Kansas; Kansas City, St. Louis, New Orleans....). Behind this 8 track staging (1/5 of the main staging) will be the Ogden Ice Dock (6 feet long), Ogden stock yards, and a packing plant.
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:49 PM•Views: 905
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19 More Panels, Tower A and to select route to West end of the Depot. Foreground area will have 3 or 4 industries on the west end of Cheyenne to switch cars into and out of for operations.
Capture Date: Mar 30, 2013 01:48 PM•Views: 909
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20 Staging Panel to route trains into Ogden from the west. Open corked area in foreground is for Ogden UP turntable and roundhouse. 4/5 of staging is on this bench, Ogden Classification, Ogden Passenger staging, Ogden arrival/departure tracks, and unit train stub yard. Altogether over 500 feet of staging tracks for 17 foot trains.
Upload Date: Aug 5, 2013 10:00 AM•Views: 931
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20A Staging helix at end of Cheyenne east (upper level) and staging (lower level). Note upper level passenger train turning loop on top of helix. There is a lower leve loop to turn east bound trains through Cheyenne, so they poiint back west for their return trip from...ahh, Chicago?? There is an west bound loop not visible on the lower level to turn passenger tains heading for the Coast so they can return pointed correctly.
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21 Some spline roadbed being glued up while laying flat on the plywood bench. After the glue sets it will be raised up on riser blocks to the model elevation to match the prototype elevation at that location.
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