I didn't claim it was true. I said the thread reminded me of the story.
Looking for an incredibly complicated way to perform a simple task.
Perhaps Rube Goldberg would have been a better example.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Simple solution: Do what the UP did in Cheyenne park em all head in with nice easy to read road numbers on the back of the tenders. But don't use a Russian pencil and if that doesn't work smash it with one of those $750 US government hammers.
Phoebe VetPerhaps Rube Goldberg would have been a better example.
Somebody probably would have complained about that too.
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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Interesting OT observation:
Not one person asked "who is Rube Goldberg"?
We must all be very old in here.