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I model a regional Rock Island Line set in 1996! It covers the region held by the I & M Raillink (now IC&E) and the Iowa Interstate in that year. (When I want to get "real" I can use IMRL and IAIS locos/rolling stock on the layout). The use of the RI's 1980 loco roster works very well for a regional road in 1996. The roster is patterned on the IMRL and IAIS rosters, but altered to fit what a reduced sized Rock Island might have had at that date. For example, IAIS uses GP38x, my RI their blue scheme GP38-2s and GP40(-2)s. The IMRL ran SD40s, my RI SD40-2s. Etc. So I have a lot of RI blue (GP38-2, GP40-2, SW1500, etc.) on the layout. However, the current owners wanted some of the older paint schemes to remain as part of the RI heritage, so SD40-2s are still red and yellow, GP9s have gone back to striped maroon, etc. My RI still even runs a Rocket between Chicago and the Quad Cities, as AMTRAK does not. So the Rock Island Lines is STILL the road to ride in 1996 !!! [:D]
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