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, September 9, 2010

Gary Hoover's Incredible Railroad


I had an opportunity to visit Gary Hoover's incredible model railroad this evening. Gary, featured in Model Railroader on a number of occasions for his outstanding modeling, was a most gracious host. He is a prototype modeler with his large Cajon Pass and Chicago railroad replicating the western reaches of the Santa Fe in the transition period from steam to early generation diesel power in August, 1951. Gary loves to build prototype model railroads, and this layout will be torn out in the next few weeks to make way for his latest effort, which is already started. As I understand, this newest effort will bring us the Norfolk Southern and its heavy duty coal-hauling mountain railroading.

Tomorrow, it's back in the basement and back to the installation of Tortoise switch machines. We got the accessory buss wires put in today.
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