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Mike, I found a useful site that allows you to tinker with new paint scheme experiments. But, you have to be good with graphics manipulation. Myself, I use Paintshop Pro, MS Paint, CorelDraw, and ACDSEE for all my graphical needs. If I need 3D then I have Ulead Cool 3D and 3DMax 4...

George, What??!! :mad: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: If you guys want those numbers, you will have to come and get them. LOL! :D Now about these hoppers. I lived less than 200 feet from the Rock Island's branch line that went from Rock Island to Peoria. I distinctly remember black...

Morning, Okay, after nearly all night with my stuff, here is my ROCK rolling stock listing. It will be longer, as I am taking off for a couple of shows in Sept, and October. I wanted to go to a show in Nov as well, but the 'little Woman' put her foot down, when she found out it was the same...

Hi, One thing you might want to try to get a car weathered is spray the whole thing with dullcoat...let it dry for a day. Then, apply 70% alcohol to it in certain areas...the chemical reaction with the dullcoat gives a fine weathered look.

Hey Guys, Think what I will do is KEEP the railroad (MWDLRR) #s on the database, since they are the "overall" numbers...and have the Road's number on the cab (ie ROCK gets a ROCK number, BN gets a BN number, etc.) I will start any motive power that did not truly exist for the road, with the...

Hey guys, Sorry about the delay in getting the ad killer to you, Mike. You should have it by now. George, no problem in viewing. The only pic I have up is a drawing of the local system map (the actual layout area) on the system map page. Yeah, I have not come up with an overall system...

Mike, Soon as breakfast is over. Get a chance to check the site out? Thanks.

Mike and George, It is 5:45am here....I just finished getting the site and all the graphics uploaded. Though, there are still some pages that need to have information put on them...at least you wont get page is missing error or a 404 error...

Mike, Hehehehe.... The GP20 is an ex-CP Rail, the GP9 is an ex-Great Northern, and the GP50 is soon to be an ex-Southern. These will all belong to the ROCK by Monday. Uhhhohhh....time to make changes. Sorry about this Mike. Umm according to my trusty Athearn guide and also their...

Mike, You could put a small white patch under the decal area where you are going to apply the 'R' logo. The newsletter will be put on the site monthly or whenever I update our operations as soon as it is up and running. This was the only time it would be sent via email. This way you guys...

George, You know the saying.....no such thing as MRR police. LOL! I do explain my system to the die-hard Rockies though. That was what I really meant. Glad you liked the newsletter. Now if I could just hear from Mike on that. LOL! If you guys want it, I could zip up the website (its...

Mike, When you get the time, can you please update the roster? I have two additional GP9s by Athearn and you have the incorrect number for GP35s and GP38s down. I have 4 GP38s and 2 GP35s... Hope you enjoyed the newsletter.

Mike, I don't have your email. Do you have it setup so that I can email you from here? I will gladly send it once I get an address. I guess I have bent some of the original rules as far as numbering ROCKs go. I added two GP35s to my fleet, one is blue and white, the other is for my...

George, I can get you GP7s, undecorated from Atlas for $71.00... Or, a P2K undecorated with dynamic brakes and steam generator for $74.80 Sorry, those are the only two choices I can offer, unless you want to convert some Athearn GP9s to GP7s. I can get you Athearn undecorated dummy...

Mike, The two Geeps, both GP9s (actually I think the ROCK had more GP7s than 9s-I would call them GP7s, but they were bought as GP9s-ehh, whats the difference?) are going into the paintshop soon. They are still a shiny black, and they need their primer coat soon. These are in addition to...

Mike and George, I found "some" sites on the Net. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but at least it was useable. I can send these pics to you (ehh, once I locate them on the hdd). I believe they are of the Blue Island yard shops, but I could be wrong. They "MIGHT" be of the Silvis...