…and easy going eddie is just sitting down to his dinner in the club car when suddenly, the Jihadist terrorist blows up the track with the new Lionel exploding IED!
curse you , you terrorists!
My great grandfather, my grandfather and my father all worked for the Illinois Central Railroad, my grands as engineers, my dad as a telegrapher. The very first thing I ever learned about trains is not to get in front of one, and never to step on the tracks. Its not like they can chase you down, you know where they are going to go. And umpteen tons of train cannot stop on a dime when they see you. Both my grands had hit things, people, animals and vehicles, and there’s not a thing you can do but sit there in the cab and watch some idiot meet his maker while the horn blows. Anyone who even thinks about going around a crossing guard, trying to “beat” a train to a crossing or do anything but get across a deserted track deserves to be struck dead by Darwin or God or lightning or something, but it really messes up the engineer, so I would prefer they commit suicide some other way.
TexasProudCowgirl over 15 years ago
A pretty dark lesson at that! Sheesh! This is One Big Happy, right?
micsal Premium Member over 15 years ago
hey, lets steal from a 50’s lionel catalog cover for the first pane l!!!!!!! noe one will spot it and we won’t have to pay for the artwork!!!
micsal Premium Member over 15 years ago
let’s swipe the artwork from a 50’s Lionel catalog! no one will know and we won’t have to pay for the art work!
pdino over 15 years ago
“Press ‘one’ to meet your maker”! Excellent.
jrs111456 over 15 years ago
Wonder if anyone was “INTEXTICATED”
carmy over 15 years ago
Ya think so, Ruthie?
COWBOY7 over 15 years ago
I am still in to those Lionel Trains. Sometimes my son and I have “accidents” too!
Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago
…and easy going eddie is just sitting down to his dinner in the club car when suddenly, the Jihadist terrorist blows up the track with the new Lionel exploding IED! curse you , you terrorists!
johnparadox over 15 years ago
For some reason, this reminds me of the trains on The Addams Family.
Basqueian over 15 years ago
My great grandfather, my grandfather and my father all worked for the Illinois Central Railroad, my grands as engineers, my dad as a telegrapher. The very first thing I ever learned about trains is not to get in front of one, and never to step on the tracks. Its not like they can chase you down, you know where they are going to go. And umpteen tons of train cannot stop on a dime when they see you. Both my grands had hit things, people, animals and vehicles, and there’s not a thing you can do but sit there in the cab and watch some idiot meet his maker while the horn blows. Anyone who even thinks about going around a crossing guard, trying to “beat” a train to a crossing or do anything but get across a deserted track deserves to be struck dead by Darwin or God or lightning or something, but it really messes up the engineer, so I would prefer they commit suicide some other way.
HelenasCookies over 15 years ago
Judging by the locations the trains are coming from, Rick Detorie must be from Maryland - those are both two MD towns
lorelei6361 over 15 years ago
Back when I lived in Wichita Ks. there wasn’t hardly a month that went by, some idiot didn’t get hit trying to dart across the tracks.
James Lindley Premium Member over 15 years ago
This does make a good PSA, doesn’t it? No Ruthie, Daddy’s not trying to teach you a lesson. Now pay attention so you’ll learn, OK? :)
Midnite Wine over 6 years ago
Calvin would have liked being invited!