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I'm designing what will be my third (and probably last, if everything goes according to plan) layout that I hope to start as a series of small dioramas that, when I eventually buy a house, form the spiritual core of my Allegheny, Mercer, and Lake Erie RR. Based heavily on the old Bessemer & Lake Erie (or CN Bessemer Division nowadays). I wanted to model the area I live in and places I'm extremely familar with, but the B&LE runs almost exclusively coal and iron ore. I wanted double stacks and autoracks. <br /> <br />A little research told me that the B&LE was originally the Pittsburg, Shenango, and Lake Erie. Pittsburg/Pittsburgh sits in Allegheny county and Shenango is Mercer county, so I took the county names for the railroad name. I rationalized that the NS wanted a short-cut from Canada and western NY to their assets in Pittsburgh and the kind of traffic I wanted was born. By completely replacing the B&LE, my AM&LE was allowed to steal its right-of-way to allow me to model specific places I wanted to.
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