I thought our conversation was being limited to commemorative locomotives. Thus far, there has been no locomotive painted in a unique paint scheme to honor straight white men, and we all know there never will be. As I mentioned, years ago KCS painted some of their units solid white, but that was in a pre-bleeding heart liberal, woke, progressive, politically correct, corporate pandering era when railroads painted locomotives without a concern for identity politics.

As for the earlier era you mentioned where straight white males were honored, it was probably deservedly so. James J. Hill built the Great Northern, John Stevens found a way over the Cascade mountains, William Hood designed the Tehachapi Loop . . . are you suggesting that, in the name of political correctness, all of the recognition should have been bestowed on people-of-color who didn't contribute nearly as much, merely because of the color of their skin? Thankfully, woke politics and political correctness didn't plague that era like it does now and, besides, that would have been going against what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of in his 1963 speech. These days we practice just to opposite of what he was talking about regarding skin color and content of character.

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