About Me
- Mark B.
- Allendale, SC
- I grew up in Wyoming, mostly living in areas served by the railroads I model. I remember standing at the window in our Cody Wyoming home, staring at night at the old Husky refinery across town. I remember the bridge across the creek and under the tracks between Powell and Cody. I remember always looking for trains as we travelled through the Wind River Canyon. And I remember my mother's last home - a mobile home in Evansville next to the Burlington mainline.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Minneapolis Staging Yard Finished!
The last finishing touches - the east throat occupancy detectors - on the Minneapolis staging yard are finally done! Now it's on to installing the base for Thermopolis, finishing the backdrop for Glenrock, and adding fascia to the Glenrock benchwork (in front of the west part of Minneapolis staging). After that will come some real scenery!
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2 comments:
Mark,
Nice blog. Did you have to do something to your rolling stock to get your IRDOT sensor to trigger? My experience is that you need to paint a white patch or stick something shiny to the underside of the locomotive/car to get the IR detector to trigger.
Rangachari,
Thanks for the nice words!
I didn't have to do anything to the rolling stock. In fact, the detectors are so sensitive that they detect the subroadbed four inches above the yard! I had to glue sandpaper to the bottom of the upper subroadbed wherever it crossed over a detector to avoid a constant "occupied" indication (the sandpaper scatters the beam)!
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