Tell It Like It Is! Wrote:
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> Big Boy doing Little work Wrote:
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> > Foamer w/glass half full (of beer) wrote: "I
> > didn't see the Big Boy and don't know if I ever
> > will see it. However, based on much of the
> > Internet commentary about the Big Boy trips in
> > Wyoming, Utah and the Midwest, many railway
> > enthusiasts were thrilled to watch it in
> action."
> >
> > All of the video I have seen, with the
> exception
> > of her topping Archer Hill on the first day of
> > this series of trips, shows her working a
> drifting
> > throttle. There simply is not enough train to
> make
> > her work much at all. She could handle 8-10
> times
> > that much tonnage on the prairie. The present
> > consist would be child's play for 844, let
> alone
> > 4014.
> >
> > The excessive, nearly constant whistling has
> > gotten tedious as well. It seems like Ed
> Dickens
> > is suspended from the whistle cord to keep
> himself
> > from falling out, as he leans way out the cab
> > window like some Hollywood Casey Jones.
> >
> > You can tell that the hero-worship of the guy
> has
> > completely gone to his head.
> >
> > Some of the worst of the gushing fanboy
> silliness
> > comes from the so-called "professionals" at
> Trains
> > Magazine.
>
> You Sir, are a DICK!

Apparently the truth hurts.