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Ok. Thanks. I will keep looking for a shade with a RR motif.

How do you think those backdrops would look as a window covering ? I tried using a 3d map but it did not look good with the light coming through from behind.

For those viewing who are not familiar with your Gassman Coulee trestle posted on the Minotors facebook

ah yes, get that equipment out there to work. It doesn't make money in the paint booth. I have been patching, (covering the Lionel name with my magnetized logo) and didn't know it!

Greg Can I ask what "patched" locos refers to ?

When my grandfather's train arrived a couple years ago I began a study of model trains as well as railroad history. As a way of leaving a slightly more interesting family tree to my son I then blended my mother's extensive genealogical research into a railroad empire. In that spirit I merged...

Its nice that you still have your friend with you on the layout.

I may have missed it in all these posts but do you have any photos of your friends GC&W ?

Any rails still nearby?

That beautiful inn has been vacant over 2 years. Thats not good. You could really expand the Logan Valley in there.

Wrong bus, same idea

Seems to be a Toyota in it here

Thats a great photo. It should be in that book. It focused on NP. and GN. Mentioned UP and SF also.

It was just a paragraph in this book. No specifics were given.

I read that MILW served Yellowstone Park through Gallatin Gateway. Are you familiar with that? Was it a bus service?