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Dear ILTCO
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:33:19 GMT
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Sir,
I wish to take issue with the caption of two images in Russell Clark's otherwise
excellent presentation, "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends".
On page 23 (of 27), a compound image is captioned "Thomas by unknown
modeler[sic] (UK)". The model clearly shows an OF class 0-4-0 saddle tank
engine in the livery of the Caledonian railway, and not an 0-6-0 (side) tank
engine in the style of the Rev. W. Awdrey's aforementioned original creation.
I am sure the modeller (whoever he may be) is clearly aware that 'Thomas' has
six wheels, not four, and would be highly offended, possibly liable to fits of
mental dissociation and extreme acts of violence to hear his %$~!@*# Caledonian
0-4-0 referred to as %$~!@*# 'Thomas' by one more %$~!@*# parent at a %$~!@*#
$%*@#~! train show for %$~!'s sake, don't they know %$~!@*# anything?
Did Reynolds put you up to this? I'll have that $%*@#~!, I tell you. Just you
wait and see that I %$~!@*# don't.
Yours faithfully,
Jason J. Railton, B.Eng
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Dear ILTCO
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| (...) When I created this presentation, I emailed Huw Millington about the creator of the engine, since the image was on his site. He said it was so long ago that he couldn't remember who built it, but that he "thought" it was Thomas. He suggested I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Dear ILTCO
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| (...) (Sirs) (1) (snip the rest) Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We shall give your thoughtfully worded missive exactly the amount of careful consideration that this issue deserves.(2) Would it were that this were the most pressing (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) lol I just finished reading my latest issue of Car & Driver magazine, and your letter reminded me of the good humor found throughout the mag, but especially in the letters to the editors section:-) I agree with you that Thomas is a mixed (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Actually this worries me a times at (non-Lego) exhibitions, the amount of children who see a model of any steam loco and say "Thomas", its not the fact that the loco is a tender pacific but the fact that it is green of black or whatever, are (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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