This blog is to document the building of a model railroad, the Paducah and Lake Erie. The free-lance design is set in the current time, and meant to replicate the coal-hauling roads of southwestern Pennsylvania. This version of the P&LE is a bridge line that derives its name from my wife's home town (and well known to Illinois Central buffs) and our former long time residence about 50 miles south of Lake Erie.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Concept


The P&LE is a modern-day bridge line between two Class I carriers. The JCR is a branch line that services the coal mines in the mountains through which the parent Paducah and Lake Erie runs. Topography closely resembles the Allegheny Mountain area of southwestern Pennsylvania (because I don't want to model several hundred feet of Indiana corn fields that prototypically make up the area between Paducah and Lake Erie, and I truly love the Allegheny Mountains).
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