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Gabe I can relate. Being born a year before the Rock Island went belly up, I have been striving to recreate what I missed in HO scale in my basement. I wish i could have seen Bureau jct in the 70's or seen Silvis yard when they were blocking cars for the penn central or the erie, but time marches on. I saw the return on the warbonnet first hand in the early 90's living very close to the Santa fe main line. Many of days were spent around chillicothe ill watching red and silver GP60's and dash 8's. Now we have that monster BNSF and (sorry to all you BNSF fans out there) that ugly green and orange. But the santa fe never even thought about all the intermodal trains that the BNSF runs today. Its good to see all thoes stack cars and coal trains but after while they all look the same. I mean how many AC4400 pulling coal can you see till you get bored with it. And Mark , even you have to sit and think about railroadings past. Thats what draws us to track side to see the 3985 blow through the wyoming landscape or (im my case) watch Iowa Interstate geeps lug the peoria local down into town with a string of grain cars like the old Rock once did 25 years ago. On the flip side of things, The TP&W's west end is being run again and with little geeps and switchers serving the mom and pop grain elevators thanks to the keokuk jct ry. That geep ,2 boxcars and a caboose arent as far away as you think. If you wanna talk central illinois railroads, drop me a line sometime....... Long live The Rock. <br /> Scott
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