Z-Train Wrote:
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> 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.


When has Trains ever focused on the West coast? As long as I can remember they focused on the Eastcoast or Chicago