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THE LAYOUT Cimarron & Western Ry. · Track plan, towns and motive power roster << back to the club page |
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The Room from the Ceiling Not to scale, and drawn by a man who last took drafting in 1949. The peninsula with Dunmore and the Salt Fork trestle comes out from the south wall, and the aisle runs all the way around it. The yard ladder at Tolliver is along the north wall, over the four hidden staging tracks. +------------------------------------+ | ENGINE TOLLIVER YARD | | TERMINAL ================= | | (O) ================= R | | staging below E | | C D | | I +---------------+ | | M | DUNMORE | H | | . | (elevator) | I | | | | L | | J | SALT FORK | L | | C | TRESTLE | | | T +-----+ +-----+ 2% | | . | | | | DEPOT | | DISPATCHER | +---[ DOOR ]----+ +----[ closet ]--+(O) is the turntable. The main line leaves Tolliver, climbs Red Hill along the east wall, swings out onto the peninsula through Dunmore and over the trestle, comes back to the west wall at Cimarron Junction, and dives down into staging under Tolliver, which stands in for the rest of the world. |
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Along the Line TOLLIVER, milepost 0. Division point. A ten-track yard, a three-stall engine house, a 90-foot turntable, a coaling tower and water tank for the steam, and a fuel rack for the diesels, which the old heads grumble about. Interchange with the Frisco on the lead at the east end. The yardmaster's job here is the busiest on the railroad. RED HILL, milepost 14. A passing siding at the top of a 2% grade, which doesn't sound like much until you're dragging thirty cars of wheat up it with one Mikado. Heavy trains take a helper out of Tolliver. The hill itself is the club's best scenery (see the front page). DUNMORE, milepost 27. Wheat country. The concrete grain elevator, scratchbuilt by Walt out of mailing tubes and more patience than any of us knew he had, is the tallest thing on the layout. Also stock pens, a cotton gin, a lumber yard, a team track and a little depot with a bay window. In 1956 most wheat still went out in 40-foot boxcars with grain doors nailed across the openings, so that's how we do it. SALT FORK TRESTLE. Twenty-two inches of hand-built timber trestle, a little over six hundred pieces of stripwood. Built by Don over one winter. Nobody leans on it, ever. CIMARRON JUNCTION, milepost 41. The Santa Fe crossing and interchange, a two-story depot, an oil jobber, and a pipe yard for the oil field supply outfits. The Texas Chief comes through here on trackage rights and everything else gets out of its way. |
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Motive Power Roster Engines belong to the members who own them and run in C&W colors, black with a yellow stripe and the herald on the cab. Visiting road engines keep their own paint.
Plus about 420 freight cars and 14 passenger cars, all with knuckle couplers and metal wheels, all passed by Harold. We are always short of stock cars, if anybody is looking for a project. |
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