This channel is devoted to the Reading & Lehigh Railroad. The Reading & Lehigh (R&L) is a free-lance what-if N-scale model railroad that imagines a war-time merger of the Reading Company and Lehigh Valley railroads. The merged line also doubled down on steam-power, since they now had two sprawling workshops to maintain the engines. Management struck on a place to buy the cast-off steam from other roads at bargain basement prices, and thus could save money from converting to diesels - and also allow other roads to work the bugs out of first- and second-generation units.
The layout is set in the halcyon days of 1950, with traffic flowing and business booming. The layout models Reading, PA to Allentown, PA, and includes a 12-feet long East Penn Grade, from one level to the other, enabling pusher units!
The layout itself is located in Fort Washington, Md.