Thank you for the good information. It is possible to go beyond 9600 - 115400 seems to work with the terminal program in conjunction with an IOS setting. I am searching for a way to speed the console up in ROMMON
Other threads in the CISCO Community say to boot from USB, and then copy once booted. While this works swimmingly, it adds an extra 10-15 minutes per switch.
The flash is Read Only. It won't take a copy from USB to ROMMON.It is possible to configure a ROMMON IP ADDRESS and Gateway in ROMMON and ROMMON has a TFTP folder. I would try TFTP.