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03-20-2016, 06:20 PM
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Roscoe, Snyder, & Pacific
As a youngster, I spent a l lot of time visiting my uncle's lumber yard in Roscoe, Texas, Right behind the yard there was a small Santa Fe freight yard. I would spend many hours watching what was one of the most successful short line railroad companies in America: the Roscoe, Snyder, and Pacific Railway. The RS&P was a connecting line that shuttled freight between the Santa Fe and Union Pacific lines after halting passenger service in the 1950's. Slow and steady, I remember the twice a day trips. You could almost tell time just listening for the slow and lazy horn.
Nostalgia hit me today and I decided to do a repaint of RXR's little HO scale SW series locomotive. This model will represent engine #600. 
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03-20-2016, 06:53 PM
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Cool project. Was thru there last May, taking the cut off from I-20 up US84 to Lubbock for the Ag Museum; then on up to Clovis, NM. First time in years that I was watching out for tornados. Was in Snyder several times when I was a kid. I vaguely remember those orange and black engines as different since my dad worked for the Santa Fe.
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03-21-2016, 02:19 PM
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Small, but interesting
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03-21-2016, 05:01 PM
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Great re-paint. I did the F unit in CNR. I love building the RXR locomotives.
Gary
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03-21-2016, 06:40 PM
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Thanks for the compliments, everyone!
I Made a little more progress today. I was thinking about doing an F unit repaint in Santa Fe Blue and yellow after this one. We'll see what happens.
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03-23-2016, 02:29 AM
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Not only is your repaint really good, your writing ain't half bad either. Took me back to hot, lazy summer days as a kid in Mississippi, listening to train whistles and dreaming about where they were going. Thanks!
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