a bit of good fortune

[pro_crip]

So there I was, scrolling through the messages this morning and eating breakfast when I noticed the post about the "bankruptcy blue" as used by the Rock.  I've always loved that color scheme, so I bopped over to the site that was mentioned. Then I did some further poking around and ended up at the system map. All the way down there in the corner was a stretch of track from Santa Rosa to Tucumcari NM. Reading on, I find that the rock sold those trackage rights to the espee. So now, I get to run some kodachrome locos with bright blue freight cars, also I have an excuse to run those ultra-cool silver/red warbonnet
sd 75/80's. It's all in the right general time frame (assuming that merger wasn't killed), right? Then to put icing on the cake, payday (disability) came a couple days early and now I can order everything I need to finally start laying some track. Well, I'm off to do some scenery research on that area of the world.

[Texas Zepher]

a stretch of track from Santa Rosa to Tucumcari NM. Reading on, I find that the rock sold those trackage rights to the espee. So now, I get to run some kodachrome locos with bright blue freight cars, also I have an excuse to run those ultra-cool silver/red warbonnet
sd 75/80's. It's all in the right general time frame (assuming that merger wasn't killed), right?

I'm not following, why would that be an excuse to run a warbonnet?   The SD70s didn't appear until 1992 or so  SD75s 1994 as I recall.   If the merger handn't been killed two things.  The silver/red warbonnet may have never reappeard, and it is my opinion that this trackage would have been abandon in favor of Santa Fe's own southern main running basically parallel to this trackage.