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Well, I consider myself to be a free lancer even though I model a long gone fallen flag. My layout has no real name yet and will probably never have a specific locale. That eliminates the need to be picky about the types of plant life that inhabits the area. As far as the railroad company goes I live 30' from the UP main line and have had enough of looking at yellow and gray especially on a locomotive like the 40T-2's. So I saved the bankrupt Rock Island. I came up with a brand new paint sceme(darker blue and white with red pinstripes and of course the big R) bought out the UP and repainted their SD90mac's. There is so much freedom involved in such freelancing that I think that purists consider it beneath them. I have even been refused service at a local hobby shop because I painted a Kato 90mac blue and white and slapped a big R on the sides and boy would he be offended when if he knew I cut up an Athearn Dash 9 and made a C44-9WB cabless. So no I don't think it is dead just shunned by the purists and considered to be a sore on the buttocks of model railroading. The hobby is there to enjoy not to get an ulcer stressing that the shade of paint is not prototypical. Thanks, Jeremy
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