I know why the train derailed! It’s because they pulled up the tracks to Mission Hill 30 to 40 years ago! Obviously, the locomotive lost traction in the cornfield where the tracks used to be. [D)]
Are you serious??? (I know - as a heart attack) Your paper is just about as on the ball as ours - maybe a little more…
I don’t get the discombobulation?!?! Perhaps my befuddlement will permit the fog of perplexity to muddle my mystification and enhance my bewilderment with the resulting stupefaction of my trance.
Super -sluething is hard work. The only newspaper in the state that didn’t say the derailment was on the line between Gayville and Mission Hill was the Yankton paper. Yankton is the next town past Gayville, perhaps 10 miles up the line, so I figured someone there was smart enough to catch the error. All the papers seem to have pulled it off the AP newswire. So I checked the AP newswire. AP attributes the information to the Yankton newspaper. Huh?[*-)]
I’ve given up on expecting accuracy in the newspaper. I’d be happy if someone just proofread their writing before hitting send.
Few people could have made such a bold statement before the advent of spellcheck.[:-^]
Since when has uff da been spelled Oof Duh??? [:-,]
- Erik
P.S. My grandmother was from Norway.
Norris (M.S.!), Welcome to the new world’s new news paradigm, basicly, “Lazy Journalism”. The world of " Grab it off the Wire" throw it into the Computer Printer, Publish it in the next edition[:-,]… And we all thought that those Journalism students were so smart ducking all those easy classes[D)]…
We now have those same clowns pumping out Lazy, Fake News !
A lot of local and regional newspapers have much smaller staffs than they had 30-40 years ago. A lot of stories that were covered in more depth by local reporters and stringers are now covered by wire service reporters from somewhere else who have little local knowledge.
It’s all about the bottom line as a lot of local papers no longer have local ownership. The local reporters are laid off and stories are picked up off the wire. Accuracy and depth go out the window as a result.
Canadian?
At least he didn’t spell it “Oaf, duh”.
(My ex-wife, my son and my grandkids now live in North Dakota and I swear they are all picking up a Norwegian accent!)
OK, so I Americanized the spelling. My grandfather was 100% Norweigan. I never heard him say uff da or oof duh. In a pinch, he was more likely to say something like #$*&%!!! [(-D]
I don’t know that they’re picking up a Norweigan accent. I think it’s more of a NORT!-uh-coe-duh accent.
I don’t like the changes, but I do understand why newspaper journalism is changing. The part that drives me crazy is that the story looks to have originated from the Yankton Press and Dakotan newspaper, who had it right. AP then picked it up from them and someone along the line added in the part about “between Gayville and Mission Hill” before the others picked it up. Who takes the time to add incorrect information to small potatoes, filler article?
calling your “Uff-da” and raising you a “Ya chure”!
U betcha!
Was it Milwaukee Road?
Yes, the derailment was on the old Dakota Southern/ Milwaukee Road State of South Dakota/ BNSF line. Mission Hill, on the other hand, was on the old Great Northern/ BN line that went from Sioux Falls to Yankton. I believe a portion of it was shared with CNW at one time. The whole thing was gone long before I moved to Sioux Falls in 1984.
Notice all the connections to stage coach lines. This may be an indication of what could happen to Amtrak today if it had these type connections country wide such as what is happening in California,
We’d have more stage coaches? Cool!
I notice too, that half the stagecoaches go to Nebraska, which is accros the Missouri River, back before it was mellowed out with dams. It appears you’d get a ferry boat ride to go with your stage coach ride.
BN abandoned Sioux Falls to Irene August 11, 1981 (AB6_101x)
BN abandoned Irene to Yankton November 21, 1980 (AB6_88f)…this I believe included Mission Hills and Volin (CNW X-ing)…Towards the end, BN had trackage rights on MILW because of all the failing /dying railroad out there and Irene to Sioux Falls was toast, even though it outlasted Irene to Yankton.