Did anyone else see the cover photo for the Trains.com website? The four BNSF diesels?
I was wondering what thought came to your mind first: (1) “one of these things is not like the other” or (2) “more bars in more places.”
For me it was the former, but the later hit my mind not too far behind.
Gabe
That’sd Bergie’s entry for the Erik vs. Mike show. I was more taken by the appearance that the locomotives are standing on about 3 inch gauge track. I have Sprint which is no bars in most places.
No, it is a shot of four diesels sitting in a yard. It immediately made me think of the Cingular Wireless commerical.
Also, three were EMD and one was GE . . .
Gabe
OK. Where is this photo? I thought I was just to dense to understand the question, now it appears I’m also to dense to find the photo.[D)] I go directly to the message board. To go to the Trians website, I simply click on the red logo at the top of this page don’t I?
Don’t go to Trains in the red logo. Go to www.trains.com. There are alternating photos there always. There is a picture of 4 engines, that I guarantee Cingular would like to put a caption under of “more bars in more places.”
Gabe
Thanks, I found it. I’m still the [D)] though. I don’t watch TV, so the Cingular ad reference escapes me anyhow.[(-D]
Gabe,
The shot you’re talking about is actually Bergie’s entry for the Trackside column this month, in addition to one of the trains.com cover shots.
Personally, I still derive some perverse pleasure when the image of the plain white boxcar comes up…all I can think of are shackles! [}:)]
P.S. It would seem that I have more “bars” in at least one more place than Mr. Bergstrom:
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I am still trying to figure out which half of the Angus Mookie was talking about…
…And I’m still trying to figure out what the word “bars” has to do with railroad engines pictured side by side…I’m lost like some other posters on that one.
[:I]
…Ok…Thanks Ed. No wonder I couldn’t put that together…Never have seen that add.
Most of the Cingular adds use the same basic theme of bars to denote better reception and transmission…
Based on that idea, Cop Car SS should be able to talk to Mars…[:D]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I just got off the main TRAINS homepage/site entry and there was a photo posted of a model of a town at night in the western U.S., circa 1958. The picture showed that era’s cars snuggled up to a neon-lit drive-in diner, but the focus was on one of the Santa Fe’s Chiefs that apparently was just departing the town. (I appreciated the reinforcing image of a “Chief”-themed brown boxcar in the background.) The Chief, which was on the outer track, appeared to be three-rail Lionel .027 but the inner rail was not – perhaps two-track Lionel or O? And I am positive it is the TRAINS entry. not just MR’s.
Since TRAINS’ staff is not stylistically tied to just real pictures of real contemporary North American RR ops, would I be bolting too far away from the field to ask if Kalmbach would occasionally show international railroading? So far I’ve only seen a couple of small photos of the Pendolino in the Chicago Tribune, as well as a fuzzy one of the latest generation of Japanese HST. The nose reminded me of Flipper!
The USA is sooooo far behind, HST-wise, that it isn’t funny. Perhaps by raising awareness with the occasional website cover or article about int’l rail (my bias obviously is for HST), Kalmbach could incite more interest than it knew was out there. If we can have Classic Toy Trains, can International Rail and Transit be far behind?
Just askin.’ [:-^]
Cool! [8D]
The first step to any change is education and visibility…and Trains could definately lead the charge!
