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, April 1, 2012

P&LE Roster


The P&LE roster is starting to build as power comes back from the David James engine shops in Brecksville, Ohio, and the Steve Morr paint shops in Ashland, Ohio. Here are five of the work horses slated for heavy duty. The two P&LE Alco's will work in general freight service, the heavily worn #1083 will see action in the LKL Steel Works scheduled to be built yet this year, and the two units in the back, purchased from the late Dave White's Buckeye Western Railroad, will work Attica Yard. Not in the photo are a pair of SD 40-2's in Conrail livery; they served as helpers out of Altoona in real life and will function the same on the P&LE, and three more modern road engines - two from CSX and one UP. Things are starting to pick up on the Paducah & Lake Erie. NOTE: To enlarge any of the photos in the blog, simply click on them.
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