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The Layout You will follow a 60 car double stack train as it makes it way around the layout. This will give the visitor an idea of our club. Click on the image to see the full size image. Click the "Back" button on your Browser to return to this page. |
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| Here is our "Make Up" yard where all trains start out. There are 2 groups of tracks. Each group has 5 tracks, making a total of 10 make-up tracks. The portal at the end leads to the main and east bound trains. This is the direction of the double stack we will follow. |
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| The "Make Up" yard looking from the opposite direction. You can see a portion of the latter system. West bound trains go around the curve at the end and into the "Helix". This area was recently ballasted by one of our youth members. |
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| The lead engines are on the main in the lower left corner of this picture. This is block-10. The train is passing the industrial section and Bickering yard. The end of the train disappears into a tunnel just behind the white building. The end is still in the Make-up Yard. |
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| The double stack train curves it way
around the downtown-trolley track portion of the layout. The
engines are center top of picture just starting to cross the
Green River upper trestle.
The downtown is under construction and will be back together soon. |
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| The end of the train is about where the engines were in the last picture, at the saw mill. The cars snake its way across the high bridge over Green River and into Lap Siding. As you can see the engines are just starting to lap over the train. |
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| Here is a closer look at the loop. The
double stack waits for a steam double header heading west.
Here in California as there are two such loops. Williams Loop (UPRR) near Quincy and Tehachapi Loop (UPRR) near Bakersfield. This link will take you a great website for history and a webcam. www.tehachapi.com/loop/ |
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The stack train heads into a tunnel that will curve around to the town of Green River (just to the left of the train). The double header is now crossing Green River upper trestle. |
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Here the end of the train is leaving Green River. The train loop to the right and enters summit block. The engines will are about to disappear into a mountain that is our helix. It will soon reappear at the bottom of lap siding crossing under the double trestles. |
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Though the double stack train is not visible, here is our Helix. It has 5 1/2 revolutions of 36" radius. In a small amount of space the train will gain or lose 22" of elevation. Grade is held at 2%. |
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| The double stack pass beneath lap siding.
After the helix it re-enters picture from the portal,
passes under the two trestles and heads for the small room.
A small Rio Grand train enters lap siding while a BNSF (executive paint) coal drag approaches on the main. |
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