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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy Actually, I haven't mailed the box yet...things got a bit hectic throughout July. I'm heading to Ohio to Trainfestival at the end of the week; I'll hopefully have it packed up pand headed to the mailbox by Thursday! As for towns that both the Q and Alton/GM&O served, there are loads of them, mostly SW and NE of Peoria. Joliet and Chicago leap to mind...! I'll have to check maps and get back to ya. Modeling 1948-1949 as a target would work well. You'll be able to have shiny new F-3's for both the Q and Go-Mo (P1K engines, VERY nice, and affordable!), as well as what's left of Alton steam. [/quote] Ray, I already have a set of Genesis F-3s in Q paint, partly why I chose 1945-1950 with September 1948 being the exact period is that I almost won't have to weather my F's at all! [:D] All I plan to do is put a few paint chips in the pilot and dust up the roof a bit. Also, I'm thinking about modeling the Q with the GM&O having trackage rights, with the layout loosely based on the Q's St. Louis-Burlington line, even though the GM&O never had trackage rights on this line, the C&A did, and using a little "modeler's license", I could say that the GM&O acquired and modified the old C&A trackage rights so the GM&O had rights from St. Louis to Burlington, where the GM&O could connect with the Rock Island, giving it a good route to get southbound traffic from the Twin Cities onto GM&O rails. That sounds reasonable enough to me, at least and it's believeable, don't you think? Also now like you, Ray I am a fan of USRA steam, I might e-mail BLI seeing if they could get GM&O, Wabash, and Rock Island road numbers on a future run of lite 2-8-2's![;)][:D][:p]
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