{"id":411,"date":"2020-06-19T21:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2020-06-19T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:04:59","slug":"cs-leadville-branch-line-trackplan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/cs-leadville-branch-line-trackplan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"C&#038;S Leadville Branch line Trackplan Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been giving a lot of thought to the Leadville Station spur and realised that what was required was the ability for a locomotive to run around it&#8217;s train and couple to the rear. The following change to the trackplan &#8211; the addition of a second crossover on the right &#8211; provides that ability with a minimum of track changes. I have ordered the two extra right-hand #4 turnouts which hopefully will be received by the end of next week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-413 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Update2-Trackplan-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1132\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Update2-Trackplan-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Update2-Trackplan-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Update2-Trackplan-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Update2-Trackplan.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1132px) 100vw, 1132px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen I have started work on the 6&#8243; extension to the layout to make room for the\u00a0Leadville Station spur. Next stage is the installation of the 2&#8243; deep foam roadbed and filling in the gap between the old and new foam, which could be challenging.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-415 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_2757-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_2757-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_2757-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_2757-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_2757.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been giving a lot of thought to the Leadville Station spur and realised that what was required was the ability for a locomotive to run around it&#8217;s train and couple to the rear. The following change to the trackplan &#8211; the addition of a second crossover on the right &#8211; provides that ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}