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I think that you have the horse at the appropriate end of the cart in this exercise. You have to find the prototype location or locations to incorporate as LDE's into your plan. It is probably going to take some feet on the ground in the small towns along the route locally of both the PRR and B&O now B&P, looking for some industries to model that catch your interest. Some of the inital research can be done online with some of the map programs to locate areas of possible industries for a switchng type layout. You may find several "likely candidates" several miles apart. There is no reason that these LDE's cannot be combined by moving them adjacent to one another in selective "compression" of both the Elements and the distance between them. Sort of thinking "outside the box" in reverse. With today's high gasoline prices going off in search of interesting candidates could be both costly and a waste of time, especially following the demise of the "Rust Belt" and the advent of railroad right of way "biker/hiking paths". However, there are probably remaining artifacts of the industries that supported two railroads at one time. As a starting place take a look at Oil City. I spent some time there in the late '60s touring the Jones and Laughlin welded specialty tube mill that as I recall received coiled cold rolled steel coils from the Pittsburgh mills by rail and shipped finished tubing by both rail and by truck. The mill may still be there, operating under LTV Steel or one of its sucessors.Find the LDE that you like, then the track plan can be adapted from there. Good hunting!Will
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