6.12.23

TODAY'S RAILROAD READING.

The Democrats tempted the Krampus with a picture of the Biden Express under the Christmas tree, to the immediate glee of the wags of Twitchy.  Let me direct your attention, dear reader, to one response.


So far, nobody has noted that the train under the tree is a model of the life-expired Acela trains, which remain in service because the replacement trains are working about as well as Dementia Joe's brain, and that the power car has separated from the lead coach.

The rebuttal photograph, however, has a long history.  It is a David Carroll photograph that was published on the inside cover of the March, 1976 issue of Trains with the caption "Firefighters fly to Franz, save forest but not F, which is a lot of ferroequinological flummery.  Mr Carroll was with a Wawa, Ontario based fire fighting crew, and they did Smokey the Bear a solid by preventing the fire from spreading to the forest, although the diesel was badly burned out and towed away for scrapping.

And now you know the rest of the story.

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