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50 years ago - Trip Pic #21
Continuing our trip down memory lane of my 1972 vacation....
Here we see the "RV" Roseville Fruit train rolling past Tower A at the West end of Cheyenne, Wyoming. I spent about an hour this day up in the tower talking to the operator. One of my biggest rail fanning regrets is that I did not take any photos of the inside of the tower. I would not get a second chance as the tower was demolished at the end of this year. Even though the tower ceased to exist, for years afterward you could hear crews calling "we're rolling by the tower" on the scanner.
Using Bob Odland's notes, I made a CAD drawing of the tower years later. That drawing was used by Overland Models to manufacture a brass model of Tower A. I modeled Tower A junction on my model railroad and have one of the OMI models watching over it.
50 years ago - Trip Pic #21
Continuing our trip down memory lane of my 1972 vacation....
Here we see the "RV" Roseville Fruit train rolling past Tower A at the West end of Cheyenne, Wyoming. I spent about an hour this day up in the tower talking to the operator. One of my biggest rail fanning regrets is that I did not take any photos of the inside of the tower. I would not get a second chance as the tower was demolished at the end of this year. Even though the tower ceased to exist, for years afterward you could hear crews calling "we're rolling by the tower" on the scanner.
Using Bob Odland's notes, I made a CAD drawing of the tower years later. That drawing was used by Overland Models to manufacture a brass model of Tower A. I modeled Tower A junction on my model railroad and have one of the OMI models watching over it.