That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 30, 2020

“And make sure it makes a ‘CHOO CHOO’ sound when it runs.”

“Everyone look busy, we are being painted!”

“Don’t you think the IKEA guys have gone too far?”

the boss trying to pretend he understood the plans on bring your kid to work day…

The plans they’re looking at isn’t for the train, it’s for the house.

The garage they built the train in has a door that’s only eight feet wide.

“You built it facing East, it should be facing West”

When the Irish learned that Vodka was made from potatoes. they got right to work on building the biggest damn still they could make! They knew they were going to need it.

“It’s ok, the cat’s bed is situated just here”

“Thomas the Tank Engine…the early years!”

So there’s that action figure that clogged the system.

Don’t forget the smoke pill in the smokestack! And make sure the track has 3 rails.

This is the most elaborate background I’ve ever seen for a portrait of a cat’s butt !

Cat’s thought: Don’t they know that guy’s a train engineer, not a mechanical engineer?

Cat: “Guys, that really isn’t how you build a better mousetrap.”

Why am I not surprised that this painting is German?

I’d be happy as a new Prince/ a-poring over blueprints/ until I had eye-strain…/ I would light a candle votive/ on my freakin’ locomotive/ if I only had a train…

“Oh, come on, people. I got these do-it-yourself vaccine maker plans off the Internet—how hard can building it be? Now, let’s see … Next we need twenty pounds of uranium and some eye of newt. "

The Cecil valve isn’t Ceciling. C’mon people.

As the cat leaps up and grabs the plans they can only wonder at his loco motives.

Locomotive? I thought we were building a cannon; this explains a lot.

What’s new pussycat?

With our new super technology we will conquer the world, bwa ha ha!

Every Thursday Lady Dorff goes to the round house to select the new pipe fitter.

Welllllll DANG!

They were making great progress on the Magic Machine to drive out the evil pandemic until the Orange Emperor threw a spanner in the works, by telling them that he wanted his name emblazoned all over it!

choo choo ka choo

Next Monday morning: “Anybody seen the cat? Uh-oh.”

The money is in knowing where to draw the “X”.

OK men, ve haff finished the contraption dat vill make the whistle blow. Now ve must find a way to make this ting move!

I’ve had too many conversations like that while assembling various contraptions.

Yes, it’s completely non-polluting. It runs on fizzy lifting drinks.

Before the Completion: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meyerheim-4.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting (more may be added once its museum responds to my inquiry).

https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Paul_Friedrich_Meyerheim/11054342/Paul_Friedrich_Meyerheim.aspx 

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW0NAQAAMAAJ&q=1842&pg=PA564#v=onepage&q=1842&f=false 

both have info about this artist (again, if his askart.com bio is truncated, it can be read for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2439 (April 29, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Before this damn thing is complete/ check the "President"s" latest tweet../ He may change his mind/ and then we might find/ from the “Luegenpresse” WE get the heat…

Steam punk!!

G pulman’s first idea of a sleeping car wasn’t well taken, a little too warm, well back to the drawing board.

Eric Von hineman’s idea, "to cremate the prisoners on the way to concentration camps instead of the ovens.

“The kitchen goes here and the kid’s playroom goes here. The master bedroom will be all the way in the back.”

How come when I moved my thumb and finger apart, it didn’t make this section larger?

On The Dummy, on The Dummy Line, rise and shine

Rise and shine and pay your fine, when you’re riding on The Dummy Line.

Imperial or metric?