I have been in contact with Fraxis on the several issues with the game. Mostly the decorations file not getting saved by the game when playing/saving.
I also would like to point out that the Scenario Objective 'Grow Cities' also will not work correctly. Even on the default maps in the game... ie. the France map for one. Instead of waiting for the target city to reach it's target growth size...it triggers the objective as soon as you place a train station at the town for the first time.
The response I have received from Fraxis said my findings have been moved up to the Development Team for testing and review...looks like we might just have a new game update soon. Hope they throw in some new content as well.
...Florida Gold maps...
The 20x20 sized map construction is complete. PreBeta and Design tests will be finished this weekend. I only lack a little more artwork for my Southern train engines (should be easy as they are mostly black), The F unit colors are a tad different with Dk Green and Silver sometimes White, a couple icons need a do-over, newspaper pictures, a couple more industry report and buy pictures. Should have all that done this weekend.
The 17x17 sized map has a few new edits that need done. PreBeta tests for that map will be started this weekend as well...this map will test out faster than the larger one.
One thing I have found on big maps like this 20x20 -or- 400 square unit map, is they can get a tad unstable as you get ever more train cars loading-unloading and the game needs to write down a trillion things at once it seems sometimes. Surprisingly though the larger map runs fairly stable for it's size. It may drop off to the desktop a few times, but only after a couple hours of play. This is going to depend greatly on the players system setup. If it drops out...I just click and go right back in without any wait...and everything is good. So it plays to the end of the scenario just fine.
Beta tests will begin this week after I get the 17x17 map complete. They need to be placed/posted out as a set...this way if your system can't run the larger 20x20 sized map you can still play the scenario. It seemed like the fair thing to do.
I will begin work on everything I need for the installer as well.
If I can't get the palm trees to kick-in before release I will skip them for now.
...something missing...I'll find it.
I have been doing two different game mods at once plus some other stuff and I never saw your post about the group. It just suprised me today to see those pics there...I thought it was someone's new mod for the game and why would they be using pictures from mine? type thought. I can provide better pictures than those. I also paint and sculpt...so I am an old time artist as well...my name is like a trade mark for artwork...so as my wife would say..."you have over-reacted again." 
