The culprit: For better or for worse, the crime: Inncaurate data!
Look ath the below strip from the sunday paper. I don’t know weither to be hapy that railroads were noticed, or be insulted because of it. And I thought everybody knew thata Dash 9 would never have an EMD prime mover!
the strip is at http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/strips/040801.jpg
Saw that in the paper today.
stay safe
Joe
No comment,as I copied to file,and sent to several people.
Too bad it wasn’t a GP-9.
i saw that comic…made me think of many a foamer…lol…
csx engineer
5000HP/6000HP C44-9W? Good thing GE never tried that!
I wouldn’t worry overly about the cartoonist getting a few things a bit skewed. Most poeple who read comic strips in newspapers wouldn’t have noticed the inaccuracies.
I reckon it’s overall a good thing that the character “John” has a garden railway. [;)][:)][;)] I’ve seen a few strips in our local newspaper here in bribsnae, when John was building the railway, and I found them all good. I’m happy that railroads and modelling them is noticed. [:)]
That particular strip gets a lot of readership down here, so here’s a chance for railroads to get a good profile where it’s carried in newspapers etc… [:)] [;)] I reckon Lynn Johnston does a good job with “For Better or For Worse” [:)][;)]
Dave
Ah, those guys sure remind me of a few people I know, mirror image. [:D]
Model railroading seems to get into For Better or Worse quite a bit[:)].
To the best of my knowledge,the guy portrayed in"For Better or Worse"
actually is a model railroader.[:)]
So-Send Lynn Johnston a subscription to Train’s magazine.
She has a great strip. For all we know, her husband, if he is the garden railroader in her family, may have relayed that explanation from someone who “knows it all”.
(Like, who among us have never gotten the facts mixed up".)
I’d like to think that it’s also a little bit of an insider for those with the knowledge.
Jay
[(-D] Yea I saw that this morning, it woke me up. I couldn’t help but laugh… Dash9 built by EMD. But I’m still gonna stick it on my wall with all my other train comics. And it is good to see model trains in the paper…Get people interested in the models and the will get interested in the real thing.
Think about it - if she had gotten all her facts straight, GE or EMD may have possibly billed her for license fees…
Mook
…I’m first of all surprised to see “anything” railroad in a comic strip…More pluses than minuses. Bring it on more…The more exposure, the better.
Yes, the husband of the one who draws this comic is a model railroader. He appeared in Model Railroader a while back. I think he was building an outdoor live steam type (don’t remember if he has steam, just using that term for size) that you can ride on.
Maybe the railroad he was modeling repowered its Dash9s with EMD engines because they were tired of the GEs breaking down on the road.[;)]
The whole point of the cartoon was to get the facts mixed up on purpose! It really is an inside joke. The general public doesn’t know the difference between a GE or EMD! The cartoonist was poking fun at people who think they know it all, but have their facts wrong.
Think you GP40-2.
He’s starting the new trend… all railroads will follow with putting EMD engines in thier GE locos.
As I recall from the MR article, Dr Johnston (he really is a dentist) bought a company that manufactures 1"/foot rolling stock, etc. The engines are all D/E, actually running on batteries. He has something like 4000’ of track down, and it’s in Canada. MC would appreciate what he goes through to keep it in shape.
The MR on-line article is here:
http://www.trains.com/content/dynamic/articles/000/000/004/486iqkwu.asp
It includes a link to his company website.
