The Weathering Depot

After looking at the two modules, and deciding to keep the Tangent B&O caboose, I’m going to look for a B&O locomotive to run with it, as an interchange connection. Yes, the layout is only two modules and is mostly a display layout for my weathered models, but it will run and provide a bit of rail action.

With that being said and the addition of B&O to the scene, the area modeled could be either an industrial part of West Virginia, or an industrial part of a city in Ohio, an area where the Penn Central and B&O would have interchanged. One such spot could be several areas of my hometown of Cincinnati, especially the area around the sprawling complex of Proctor and Gamble in the suburb of St. Bernard. I’ll probably be posting more on this later but these two railroads had the contract in alternating years to service the huge P&G complex of 120 buildings on 485 acres in its heyday. The area around the complex was also filled with other industries in what is the Mill Creek valley area of Cincinnati. So there we have it, my small display layout can either be Ohio or West Virginia, and maybe my hometown!