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Hi Folks, I have started work on a new map - Tennessee Trains. I am really just getting started building and painting the pieces that I need - industries, train cars, etc. I have gotten the first engine ready and tested - the Alabama and Tennessee River GP9 number 2012.

The next engine for this map will be the Tennessee Valley GP28 number 1826.

The next map that I plan to use in this map is the Amtrak F40PH number 276.

Just finished this engine - the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia GP38 number 84. This was the first train that I think I have done that has the bell on the rear of the hood, and horns front and back.

Hi Folks, For the next engine I am using on this map, I pulled one out of the archives, the Illinois Central Gulf GP40 number 3007.

I have spent the last few days constructing the Gibson Guitar Factory which will be an industry on this map.

That's very cool.

The next engine for this map will be the Southern SD40-2 number 3253. This was an interesting project. The kfm that I was working from had no bell layer, yet the engine carries a bell on the back of the hood. In order to get the bell to sound I had to mess with the nif file to get a bell layer inserted and the had to take a GP38-2 kfm file and change a number of the kf files to use the six-wheels of the SD engine. An interesting project.

The last engine intended for use with this map is the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) GP60 number 9631. I have a lot of map work to get done. Once the map is in reasonable shape, I will begin transferring stuff from my practice map to the actual map and start re-testing. Sometimes progress comes a little slowly. So it goes.

I intended this last engine to be a GP60. However, what I created instead was a GP60M which has a completely different front end. I have spent the last couple of days fixing this issue and now have a GP60 which was what I needed. The SSW GP60 now looks like this: I have moved all material from my practice map to the actual Tennessee Trains map and re-tested everything. I have some map work to do and then I will begin testing for play.

Sorry that progress on this map has been so slow. Two reasons - 1. It's golf season and 2. I am struggling to get a balance on this map. Through testing, I have found that the Amtrak engine really serves no purpose. My original idea for it was not going to work. It has been removed.

Right now I am testing a couple of new starting locations to see if that will resolve my balance issues. We'll see. I am working on the map. It has just been slow going. Now - back to work.