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EMD E8: Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific

And if you want to ride, you gotta ride it like you find it,
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line

The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad, known famously as the "Rock Island Line" was an extensive railroad, reaching as far north as Minnesota, and as far south as Galveston. The railroad was known for very brightly decorated diesel locomotives, a tradition reflected in the earlier liveries depicted in these reskins.

These locomotives were assigned the the railroad's many inter-city routes from their construction in 1950, and were later delegated to commuter service in the 1970s after Amtrak took over national rail travel. They went through several different paint jobs over the years, with quite some strong variety. Some locomotives adorned a flashy livery which labeled them "The Rocket", while others had less detail. Eventually, the livery was standardized and simplified in the 1970s.

This pack includes nine repaints of themeatballhero's fantastic E8 locomotives, two E8 locomotives sporting "The Rocket" livery, one with a more generic 1950s livery, two with more simple livery from the 1960s, one with a wing-like front detail, and three depicting the standard livery seen on commuter trains of the 1970s. Locomotives from 1970 are reversible, to enable commuter train use.

• Rock Island "The Rocket" 644 - 1950
  
• Rock Island 646 - 1950
  
• Rock Island "The Rocket" 650 - 1950 (Includes Reversed)
  
• Rock Island 647 - 1961
  
• Rock Island 654 - 1961 (Includes Reversed)
  
• Rock Island 655 - 1969
  
• Rock Island 644 - 1970
  
• Rock Island 658 - 1970 (Includes Reversed)
  
• Rock Island 661 - 1970

Want those matching gallery cars? You can find them here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835422609

Also, thanks to the following:

• themeatballhero, for their fantastic E8 locomotive, the resources to skin it, and helping troubleshoot along the way.
  
• The Transport Fever North America Discord server, who particularly assisted on finding correct and accurate colors for this paint scheme.
  
• The Transport Fever 2 Wiki, their instructions on setting up the Model Editor were essential.
  
• You, the people viewing this and downloading this skin! I was blown away with the positive response from my CNW E8s, that it really encouraged me to do more.