[RITSlist] A Rocket Survey

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Andy;

My favorite era on the Rock would be the early 70's, 1973 - 1974 in 
particular, what I like to call the "post profit - pre bankrupt" timeframe. 
The Rock Island was still surviving, and doing it's best to continue in 
moving traffic from Chicago westward (and visa - versa), although the seeds 
of destruction had already been sown. 

My favorite loco's were the GP7's, GP9's & GP18's. These unit's at the time 
I'm interested in, were the all purpose, universal loco's for the Rock 
Island, working a branch line local or yard one day, and working on a road 
freight later in the week. Plus the variety of paint scheme's these unit's 
wore by the early 70's era was simply amazing to me (it also made it tough 
to model sometime's back then as well!). 

I would be interested in stories about the operations of the early 70's in 
particular, especialy on the Illinois division area (like where were the 
local switcher's stationed at, and what buisness did they handle, etc.). I 
know a little about some of this, but am sorely lacking in a full 
understanding of the actual operation's and why these were done in a certian 
manner. 

Story's about the road's freight equipment, why it was purchased/rebuilt and 
what traffic it was ment to be used for, are also of interest to me.

I hope this will help you out, Andy. 

Bob Massey  

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:29:18 -0500, Andy McBride wrote
> Greetings,
> 
> Since I've announced my new position as editor of the Rocket I've  
> been overwhelmed by e-mails wishing me the best of luck. I 
> appreciate  your support and I think we're going to have an even 
> better magazine  for RITS.
> 
> As I mentioned in my previous post this magazine belongs to you and  
> not me. To that end I'd like to hear what you think. What would you  
> like to see in the Rocket. What's your favorite era? What's your  
> favorite locomotive? What kind of stories do you like to read? In  
> short what do you think the Rocket should be all about?
> 
> Though I appreciate all the direct e-mails I've received, I'd like 
> to  see your response posted to the RITS List. That way everybody 
> can  weigh in on the pros and cons to each idea.
> 
> I'm all ears.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Andrew McBride
> Editor
> The Rocket
> 
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