12: The dispatcher’s office is in the club’s meeting room
and workshop, in a separate basement across a courtyard
from the layout space. The extension phone, originally used
on the Southern Pacific, was re-wired to work with FRS
radios and is controlled with a foot switch.
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MRH:
What about people who are upper-deck challenged?
Rob:
I have a few roll around footstools. When someone
stands on them, the sprung wheels retract so they don’t move
around. They're pretty handy.
The layout is fully detected and signaled, but several of the
signals are in canyons on the upper deck. If you’re vertically
17: Mitchell, high up in the mountains. The layout's sum-
mit is just ahead of the lead unit. This area has an S-curve
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challenged you’ll need to use the footstools to get high enough
to see them.
MRH:
What about getting from one deck to the other?
Rob:
I don't have a big enough room to use a reasonable grade to
get between the decks so I chose a helix. It's double tracked with
four laps and has an inner radius of 20" and a grade of about 2%.
and a number of high mountain marshes. Rob had to really
compress the S-curve to make it fit in his available space.
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