The way it looked a month ago ...
The way it looks today!
This is the footprint, if you will, of the Paducah Switching railroad. A subsidiary of the Paducah & Lake Erie, the new layout is a two-foot wide 10' x 16' switching railroad. It's built at a 29" height, to allow me to sit in an office chair and roll around to work and operate. Control is NCE (blue boxes in center of photo). As stated in previous post, inspiration for this effort is the "Tar Branch" of the Winston Salem Southbound.
I can't say enough about the efforts of David James and Kenny Orchard of Brecksville, Ohio, and my wife Sue. David and Kenny arrived here Saturday evening, and after a dinner at The Big Chief (a nearby historic Route 66 eatery) spent about an hour and a half planning their moves the following day. Sunday morning, after a Sue-prepared breakfast, they attacked the project, taking down and loading the old, and finally at 9:30 Sunday night, breaking only for Sue's dinner, mounted the above sections, repurposed from the peninsula of the former layout. A fourth 2' x 8' section is mounted on the wall out-of-site to the left, and will serve as a work table.
Next on my agenda is getting the walls and floor painted.
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