Post by calzephyr on Jun 30, 2012 8:57:54 GMT -8
My work has me in Denver for the past two weeks and I got to visit the Greeley Freight Station Museum on Thursday after my tasks were done for the day.
This is an amazing place and should be considered a must visit place if you get close to this town. The layout is so large any wide picture of the layout would need much better lighting than my point and shoot could muster, but I really enjoyed watching it run. One of the scenes is a fire with smoke and lights really adding to the scene.
In addition to the scenes, all signal lights work correctly and the city scenes are lighted with some great detail at all points of the layout.
Larry
www.gfsm.org/museumLayout.html
Statistics for the layout:
•The HO gauge model railroad layout covers 5,500 square feet of floor space.
•The layout has fifteen separate wiring systems.
•The single main line is 1,244 feet long, which does not include sidings or branch lines. This converts into 20.53 HO scale miles.
•The low point of the main line, Lakeview, and the staging yards are 48" from the floor. The highest main line elevation is the Quartz Mountain Summit at 98" above the floor. That calculates to a climb of 50" to the summit.
•The staging yards, east bound and west bound, are both 42 feet long (usable track, not including yard ladders).
•The Coastal branch, including Coos Bay track, is 109' long. The Sycan Branch is 95' long.
•There are be hundreds of buildings, most of which have been scratch built.
•There are thousands of hand made trees and scenery never before attempted on a model railroad.
•The wharf area features ships that are fully operational “in the field”, along with a full-scale model of the 729 foot ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
•The layout can be configured to operate in an automatically “museum show” (docent) mode, and in an “operating session” mode.
This is an amazing place and should be considered a must visit place if you get close to this town. The layout is so large any wide picture of the layout would need much better lighting than my point and shoot could muster, but I really enjoyed watching it run. One of the scenes is a fire with smoke and lights really adding to the scene.
In addition to the scenes, all signal lights work correctly and the city scenes are lighted with some great detail at all points of the layout.
Larry
www.gfsm.org/museumLayout.html
Statistics for the layout:
•The HO gauge model railroad layout covers 5,500 square feet of floor space.
•The layout has fifteen separate wiring systems.
•The single main line is 1,244 feet long, which does not include sidings or branch lines. This converts into 20.53 HO scale miles.
•The low point of the main line, Lakeview, and the staging yards are 48" from the floor. The highest main line elevation is the Quartz Mountain Summit at 98" above the floor. That calculates to a climb of 50" to the summit.
•The staging yards, east bound and west bound, are both 42 feet long (usable track, not including yard ladders).
•The Coastal branch, including Coos Bay track, is 109' long. The Sycan Branch is 95' long.
•There are be hundreds of buildings, most of which have been scratch built.
•There are thousands of hand made trees and scenery never before attempted on a model railroad.
•The wharf area features ships that are fully operational “in the field”, along with a full-scale model of the 729 foot ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
•The layout can be configured to operate in an automatically “museum show” (docent) mode, and in an “operating session” mode.
