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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill AntiGates: I'm dismayed you got that impression from the magazine when I was editor. To portray the steam engine as victim and the diesel engine as villain was the Exact Opposite of my intent, believe me! Your impression isn't imagined, but you may be getting it from someplace else. There is a large constituency of rail enthusists who believe that dieselization was a nefarious conspiracy, and took me to task monthly for not "exposing the conspiracy." I think I received at least one letter a week of that nature, which over 44 issues amounts to nearly 1000 letters (some people wrote multiple times, however). Some of those letters appeared in RPO. And, in Railroad Reading, I certainly thought it proper that writers be allowed to express personal opinion, whether I agree with it or not, and sometimes those opinions were that steam was better. Also, that belief system is rife in books and other magazines, so, yes, you're not imagining it. It's just not MY belief system. Nor my policy as editor. Nor was I bewailing the fallen flags, either. Cherishing their memory, yes. Thankful we had them, yes. But saying the world has crumbled because they're gone? No! We have a name for this syndrome: ETTS, or "Everything Turns to S...." Someone stenciled it on a former C&NW overpass on the north side of Milwaukee several years ago, which I find rather funny. I can't speak for the next editor of the magazine, and I won't comment on it, either. If you want to look at the September issue onward, please do. [/quote] Yanno Mark, You are a bright chap, I'm actually going to miss your talented contributions to every issue. But will look forward to your feature contributions, the commodity article in the August issue was very very interesting.. Steam is cool too, I'm just barely old enough to remember the retirement of Big Steam (the little guy standing on the big guy is me) [img]http://people.delphiforums.com/THEANTIGATES/MeSteam.JPG[/img] And I've seen a few classic restorations that were "ground pounding" impressive. Thumbing through several past issues, the lions share of the Steam-good/diesel-bad sentiment seems to come from your advertisers, who of course have a product to sell. But, by the same token, it doesn't take too many feature articles where the reader is implored to "max out the credit cards/put a second mortgage on the house" to see steam in action for the casual observer to wonder "What the Heck?" [;)]
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