When my younger brother Randy was about 11 or 12, he dipped his toe into model railroading for a while. He wanted to make his own model railroad, but when you're just a kid you don't have a lot of money to do custom cars. But he figured out a neat way to make a model railroad that was "his".
Here are the things that guided his thought process in building his railroad:
- At the time I worked for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, whose reporting mark was P&LE.
- We lived in Poland, Ohio,
- Lake Evans was in our back yard.
- Therefore, he decided to use P&LE decal sets and call his railroad the Poland & Lake Evans Railroad.
Smart guy...