Layout Construction Photos (Page 2)

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Starting down to Placerville from Ridgway Future site of the Placerville siding The entrance to Vance Junction from Ridgway Partially completed roadbed in Telluride
The HomaBed roadbed is installed roadbed_1.jpg (36918 bytes) roadbed_2.jpg (52654 bytes) roadbed_3.jpg (63833 bytes) roadbed_4.jpg (62162 bytes)
         
Starting down to Placerville from Ridgway Looking back toward Ridgway from Placerville Hidden track from Placerville to Vance Jct.  
Code 70 flex track is installed for the mainline track_1.jpg (31377 bytes) track_2.jpg (44259 bytes) track_3.jpg (53793 bytes)
K-27 #455 starts her run in Placerville #375 pulls a train out of Placerville The train heads on up the grade toward Ridgway End of the line at Ridgway
The first trains run! first_train_1.jpg (74833 bytes) first_train_2.jpg (68155 bytes) first_train_3.jpg (64603 bytes) first_train_4.jpg (88602 bytes)

All photos above taken with a Nikon Coolpix 950 at 1600x1200 resolution, minimum JPEG compression.  They were downsampled to 800x600 with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and saved at JPEG compression factors 7-9.  Lighting is 5000 degree fluorescent bulbs with the camera's white balance manually set from a bright white sheet of paper.