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.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Fuel & sanding facility




Trackwork continues on the P≤ top photo shows the turnout that will lead to a coal-loading siding; bottom photo is of the turnouts at the fuel and sanding facility at the entrance to the yard at Paducah. The middle turnout that appears to direct the track off the benchwork will lead around to a large yard on a 16-foot peninsula; the turnout coming out of the curve leads into the fuel and sanding island; the turnout at the bottom of the photo comes back into the mainline.

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