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

What's In A Name


The name Paducah and Lake Erie comes from my wife Sue's hometown, Paducah, Kentucky, and references our former residence in north central Ohio. In addition, Paducah was the site of the Illinois Central RR shops (still standing), a huge complex that includes a 27-bay engine shop for engine building and repair regardless of origin, and additional buildings for other railroad car construction and repair. The P&LE has a significantly compressed nine-bay replication, built by famed modeler and good friend Dean Freytag, and it will be the signature structure on the railroad. The shop provides legitimacy to having a number of engines with different road names running on the railroad.
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