{"id":183,"date":"2018-01-09T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2018-01-09T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:08:31","slug":"phase-2-trackwork-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/phase-2-trackwork-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase 2 Trackwork Finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last we have finished laying all of the trackwork for Phase 2 of the Denver’s RailRoads layout. This trackwork comprises mainly of the composite DENVER YARD comprising of the D&RGW North Yard, the CB&Q 38th St Yard, UP’s 36th St Yard and UP’s Pullman Yard & Shops.<\/p>\n

In addition to the two mainline tracks there are 3 arrival tracks, for (1) Rio Grande\/Rock Island, (2) Burlington\/C&S\/Santa Fe and (3) Union Pacific, 2 departure tracks and 8 classification tracks. The oval shown in the first photograph below is in fact the right leg of the Wye at Denver Union Station, used to back east\/west passenger trains into the station. Only southbound trains could run straight through.<\/p>\n

The oval does however have the advantage to providing a continuous run for trains on display. Once the phase 2 tracks have been connected to the phase 1 return loop tracks (and the phase 2 tracks have been wired into the DCC BUS) it will be possible to run quite long trains (even up up to 100 40′ cars) on the layout<\/p>\n

\"Right<\/p>\n

\"Denver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last we have finished laying all of the trackwork for Phase 2 of the Denver’s RailRoads layout. This trackwork comprises mainly of the composite DENVER YARD comprising of the D&RGW North Yard, the CB&Q 38th St Yard, UP’s 36th St Yard and UP’s Pullman Yard & Shops. In addition to the two mainline tracks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-model-layout","category-phase-2-of-layout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}