Filled a 30 year dream of mine to railfan Sherman Hill, Cheyenne, and Laramie last week as part of a 9 day Colorado & Wyoming vacation. Here are a few samples of some of the better crappy cell phone pictures I took during my time in Cheyenne and up on Sherman Hill. Lots of fun. Disclaimer, no rental cars were permanently damaged in procuring these photos.
20140711_210848_LLS by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Supermoon over Autorack
2014-07-12 22.17.15 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Night vision replication shot.
20140712_152258 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Is this a new style of autorack? I've not seen that type of panel on a model yet.
20140712_155302 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Yard power with one of an endless stream of covered hopper traffic rolling by.
20140712_163234 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Crew Change!
20140712_164327 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Trainworx can do this UPS scheme on a rerun of their pup trailers.
20140712_165540 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Yes, 6936 was on "display." I needed a shot of a section track flatcar.
20140712_174908 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Run through power in sequential order.
20140712_201205 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Sunset lights the depot tower beautifully.
20140713_135545 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr UP power leading a double stack train past the Laramie depot.
20140713_133128 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr MOW flats in the Laramie yard. Obviously used now mostly for rail and tie trains.
20140713_145114 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr West end of Tie siding. If not for the no trespassing signs, it was a short drive from here to Hermosa Tunnels.
20140713_161629 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Perhaps the least visited monument in America. Its to the Ames brothers, instrumental in construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, and convicted criminals for embezzling lots of construction money.
20140713_161912 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Ya gots to keep an eye on the weather at 8400+ feet.
20140713_170112 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Vedauwoo Rocks. Not near the RR tracks unfortunately, but the same formation runs over to the UP line at Dale Junction, alas, another location closed off by obvious no trespassing signs.
20140713_173244 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr I was about to get trains and a tornado on the same trip.
20140713_180336 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Hey, get us out of here now!
20140713_180153 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Turn around now. This is not the storm you are looking for.
20140713_182631 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Luckily just a funnel cloud.
20140713_185707 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Meanwhile back in Cheyenne at the depot the hail fell and started melting.
20140714_103621 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Amazing to think in a few years one of these Big Boys will be running the rails again.
20140714_104053 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Big Boy selfie.
20140714_110106 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Part of the construction map mosaic on the Cheyenne depot floor.
20140714_112518 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Local switching at the Wycon plant just west of town. That weathering job on the hopper will get modeled.
20140714_112514 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr
20140714_115350 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Graffiti on a curve. Reference shot for a model of a fill too.
20140714_144140 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Yes it was packed and sent back home courtesy of USPS Priority Mail. Decomposed Sherman Granite.
20140714_121950 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Manifest charging down the hill by the Wycon plant.
20140713_173506 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr DPU on a train in downtown Buford, WY.
20140713_171211 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr I did not meet the 1 resident. The lady in the deli is not the one.
2014-07-13 00.43.05 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr Who invited that telephone pole to our meeting?
20140711_121544 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr I made time to visit the Greeley Model Railroad Museum.
The view from my hotel balcony swooshes! by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr The "Swoosh" hotel in Denver where I shot trains from the third floor balcony. The desk clerk looked at me funny when I asked for a room on the rear of the hotel overlooking the tracks.
20140713_150412 by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr One of many shots for possible backdrop use on a couple modules.
I'll stop here before I get your goat.
Long way down by
peterkoehler-pfotenhauer, on Flickr
Hey, get your own goat.
