Earl Pitts Wrote:
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> Z-Train Wrote:
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> > Are you for real???
>
> Very much so. More than you can imagine.
>
> > Maybe the reason that there is so much more
> > coverage of the NS steam program is because
> > in 2012 NS ran trains with steam locomotives.
>
> And UP didn't?

You should be ashamed of yourself for editing my comment and completely changing the meaning. Your previous post was specific to the Big Boy 4014 and my reply was specific to that locomotive.

But through unethical editing of my response, you altered to the meaning of my comment as if to generalize Trains' coverage of the UP and NS steam programs.

If your real beef is that Trains Magazine doesn't sufficiently cover UP's steam program, that's a completely different issue which you could have introduced in a different way.
>
> It has always been so. And always will be.
> Even during the 17 years the NS program was dead,
> the Milwaukee Mafia couldn't stop drooling over
> it.
>
> The NS program is a great thing, but they are
> rookies
> at this compared to the only Class 1 that has
> never,
> ever dieselized.
>
> As they did when CP started their modest program,
> Trains acts as though no one has ever thought of
> using
> a steam locomotive for anything but fantrips.
>
> HELLO!! UP was doing things 35-40 years ago with
>
> their locomotives that the newbies still haven't
> tried, but now say they are going to. It appears
> that
> CP and now NS have studied the UP's methods and
> policies and emulated a lot of them. For which
> UP
> gets not even acknowledgement, much less credit.

Whatever, pal. I don't have the time or energy to go through 30 - 40 years of Trains magazines to determine the legitimacy of your beef. Based on my memory alone, I recall Trains Magazine providing appropriate levels of coverage of steam operating on BNSF, CP, NS and UP. However, my 55-year old memory is getting rusty, so maybe you're right, maybe I'm right.

I feel that Trains has not provided enough coverage of Soo 2719, SP 2472 and SP & S 700, but hey that's just my partisan view and I'm not about to label the good folks at Kalmbach the "Milwaukee Mafia" for their lack of coverage of three of my favorite steam locomotives.