[RITSlist] Look at the cover

[tom klimczak]

Phil,

Too funny! I'm lost in a red & yellow haze! An unintentional oversight, but your response does serve as a template illustrating some of the things going absolutely right in terms of a quality, highly interesting RI publication. It certainly sets the example.

Of course, my confusion is a result of the recent years' bountiful harvest of great publications devoted to the Rock Island! An embarrassment of riches, if you will. Even the CNW guys only have one publication...at last! Something the CNW guys can envy RI guys for! LOL

RTR is amazing, and with a larger audience, spreads the RI canon even more.

I usually give you direct credit for the red & yellow colors though. You should see them on an SD70 and B40-8! The recent article on the RI's U30C's blew me away and changed several assumptions I had about your red & yellow color scheme. As the father of the red and yellow speed lettered scheme, your personal history with the RI is of great interest to me. What a gig that must have been!

In another note, you wouldn't happen to have pictures of the HEP connections or maybe the rooftop modifications on the back end of the HEP E's & F's would you? 

Tom
(clearly lost in) Lemont, Illinois

Philip Weibler <pawnbaw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:       Hello, Tom -
 (I'm partial to the red and yellow paint scheme  myself)
  
 Tom - Please look at the magazine  covers!  The fantastic modeling articles on the Twin Star Rocket, boxcars  of the '50s and 60's, and the Rock Island's depressed center flatcar all  appeared in REMEMBER THE ROCK  magazine.
 The two part article on El Reno -  history, operations, people, and a detailed map - appeared in  REMEMBER THE ROCK magazine.
 Feature articles on the Rock Island's GP40s and the  Rock Island's 2-10-2 and Big Mike steamers appeared in REMEMBER  THE ROCK magazine.
 For four years, we at Andover Junction  Publications (P.O. Box 500, Mendota, IL 61342) have been producing a  top-quality quarterly magazine for Rock Island fans, historians, and  modelers.  Although we support the goals and activities of the Rock Island  Technical Society, we are entirely independent and serve a reader base much  larger than the membership of RITS.
 We will continue to provide in-depth coverage of  all things Rock Island, written and illustrated by folks you know and  trust.  And the door is always open to new contributors, as it has been for  these past four years.
 ( An aside:I have known Andy McBride since he was a  "wee lad", but we all need to understand that he is not associated with  REMEMBER THE ROCK magazine.)
 Thanks for listening.  Check those  covers.   PAW



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