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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, April 18, 2016 9:14 PM

Deggesty

But if it is invisible, how will the taggers know where it is?

Taggers always know....

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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, April 18, 2016 7:40 PM

But if it is invisible, how will the taggers know where it is?

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, April 18, 2016 6:05 PM

rdamon

The Invisible Train made the Onion ..

http://www.theonion.com/features/american-voices

“The amount of money they’ll save on train paint will be staggering.”

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Taggers will make it visible again!

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Posted by rdamon on Monday, April 18, 2016 11:50 AM

The Invisible Train made the Onion ..

http://www.theonion.com/features/american-voices

“The amount of money they’ll save on train paint will be staggering.”

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Posted by 54light15 on Monday, April 18, 2016 8:45 AM

You mean, Classics Illustrated, right? It was the only way I could get through Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" and even in comic book form it didn't make much sense. Boring as hell. Maybe I'll try to find a C.I. version of Ulysses for some real confusion.

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Saturday, April 16, 2016 12:11 PM

54light15

A comic collector in our midst! Awesome! 12 cents, so that should be around 1967?

 

Could be; they were a dime when I stopped buying them (except for Classic Comics, otherwise known as Cliff's Notes for High School).
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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, April 16, 2016 10:17 AM

God bless Ben Grimm!  "It's CLOBBERIN' TIME!"

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Posted by 54light15 on Saturday, April 16, 2016 9:13 AM

A comic collector in our midst! Awesome! 12 cents, so that should be around 1967?

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Posted by wanswheel on Friday, April 15, 2016 4:43 PM

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 15, 2016 1:33 PM

54light15

RME- Strasburg Pinball... say what?

http://www.strasburgrailroad.com/on-the-train/cars/pinball-pendolino/

 

Strasburg has almost turned April Fool's jokes into an art. This year they made a post on facebook saying they were cutting Reading #1187 in half for an 'educational display, showing the inward workings of a steam locomotive.' That one really got the foamers going.

Not April Fool's, but his one on RYPN was pretty good too: http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12305&hilit=Linn+Moedinger+addresses&start=0

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Posted by 54light15 on Friday, April 15, 2016 1:00 PM

RME- Strasburg Pinball... say what?

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Posted by Victrola1 on Friday, April 15, 2016 10:36 AM

ChuckCobleigh

Will Claude Rains be the engineer?

 

 

Don't let the Invisible Man near visible trains. (01:58 into video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFtbiFgaAiM

 

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Thursday, April 14, 2016 11:36 AM

Forgot that Chevy Chase could be a passenger.

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Posted by RME on Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:21 AM

ACY
At first I thought the date of this news item was likely to be April 1.

That would more likely have been for the inflatable train...

although it still has to be said that no railfan April Fool's joke yet has quite come up to the standards of the Strasburg Railroad pinball special story ... oh, wait...

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Posted by ACY Tom on Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:08 AM

At first I thought the date of this news item was likely to be April 1.

Tom

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Posted by RME on Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:58 AM

Semper Vaporo
Yeah, Good ol' Wile E. never seemed to understand the Gravity of any situation.

Oh, he came to understand it QUITE well, in time... he just never figured out how to bribe Chuck Jones the way Bugs did with Daffy, to get the Acme gravity 'un-fixed'...

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:28 AM

Yeah, Good ol' Wile E. never seemed to understand the Gravity of any situation.

Semper Vaporo

Pkgs.

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Posted by RME on Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:13 AM

Murphy Siding
Was this built for Wile E. Coyote by the ACME company?

No, that would probably involve gravity, rather than optics.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:44 PM

Was this built for Wile E. Coyote by the ACME company?

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by zugmann on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:36 PM

mudchicken
Klingon cloaking device, Version 2.0 Won't need help at keeping crossings and foul zones clear, phasers and photon torpedos should do the trick.

If it's version 2.0, I'd expect it to be not only a cloak, but a phase.  So the train would pass right through cars at crossings.

 

Ok, I'll stop.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 5:43 PM

Since it's Japan, you won't have to look.  Just queue up along the lines painted on the (high) platform and the door will open right in front of you.

Then some dude in a black uniform will pack you in with the rest of the sardines...

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:20 PM

BOB WITHORN
So how would you find the invisible door on the invisible train?

Only the outer shell is invisible - once the doors open, you can see inside the cars...  (Thanks, Megamind)

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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:16 PM

BOB WITHORN
So how would you find the invisible door on the invisible train?
 

The invisible man knows.

(The Shadow do.) Huh?

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Posted by BOB WITHORN on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 2:57 PM
So how would you find the invisible door on the invisible train?
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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 1:07 PM

Would you board an invisible train through an invisible door? OUCH, THAT HURT!

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:41 PM

Victrola1

Use a polarizing filter when photographing the invisible trains. 

 
Would that produce a photo of a Polar Express?

Semper Vaporo

Pkgs.

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Posted by Victrola1 on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:01 PM

Use a polarizing filter when photographing the invisible trains. 

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 10:59 AM

How would you even know you had an invisible train? How did Wonder Woman know she had an invisible airplane? (didn't see that one coming, did ya?)

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 5:53 PM

Klingon cloaking device, Version 2.0

Won't need help at keeping crossings and foul zones clear, phasers and photon torpedos should do the trick.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west

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