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.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Upper Level Mainline Is In!



The upper level mainline of the P&LE is in, as of 3:40 pm today. Top photo is yours truly putting down the final piece of track. Bottom photo is the first train running the entire loop, here entering what will be the Yard Limits of Paducah; four of the cars are recent acquisitions from the defunct Buckeye Western, owned by the late Dave White of northern Ashland County, Ohio. Next on the agenda is the dropping of feeder wires to the buss wires.

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