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.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Christmas in Springtime

Now that Attica Yard is in, I have started unpacking boxes of rolling stock. Not having seen any of this stuff since packing up in Ashland 3 1/2 years ago, it's like Christmas in the middle of April. As you can see from the photo above, the yard is already filling up; the two "empty" tracks are the main lines. The Peabody coal train is on a passing siding. With several more boxes to go, obviously building the planned storage yard has to move up on the "to do" list. As many of you already know from experience, that "to do" list does not get shorter, it lengthens on a daily basis. But, that's what it's all about.

1 comment:

RGDave said...

Christmas in April is right! I think unpacking my stored (and some even totally unopened) cars and locomotives is one of the rewards for the long wait while the yards are under construction.

Looks good, my friend! Keep up the good work!