Nice!!! That is a perfect intersection between the movie "The Dictator", (p51, you jolly elf, you'll love it) where Sasha Baron Cohen is Admiral General of a fictitious African nation that just happens to have the same shape and position as Eritrea. (which is no reflection.)

Juxtapose the dictator's solid gold hummers with the restoration of the Eritrean Railway

I actually thought that was a very funny satire. Maybe that has something do with being a former US Army officer and knowing I could go to war against someone like that almost every day. We used to make jokes about never having enough bacon as part of our unit's ammunition draws for deployments (if that doesn't make sense, ask someone who's served in the sandbox, they'll explain it to you). I have a very irreverent sense of humor and was a stand-up comedian for a while. Until December of 2011 when it folded up, I was also the staff cartoonist for a WW2-themed magazine published in the UK and I often had cartoon ideas turned down because they were a little too much for European sensibilities.
All that said, I can't understand why someone would (or even could) use Hitler for comedy. I guess it's because I've met so many people over the years who were at the hands of that madman, on the battlefields or in the camps. Yeah, I'd bet the "Hitler rant" is such a scream if you showed it at a synagogue, regardless of the topic dubbed...
Anything that could possibly get someone in their 70s into a screaming fit brought on by the horrors of their past ain't comedy to me.

OK, guys, seriously? Now, as Mel Brooks, the man who brought us the films “Blazing Saddles’ and “the Producers” once said, “ …I was never crazy about Hitler, who was? But even now, more than 50 years after the fall of the Third Reich, the man who masterminded the extermination of more than 7 million people is still handled with care, as if the magnitude of his crime demands no less. If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win, that's what they do so well; they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter--they can't win. You show how crazy they are." Brooks realize that the simplest way to demolish Hitler was to mock him. Laughter is the best weapon. Also, if we cant laugh at ourselves and our hobby, then we need to be laughed at. Anyway, I think the 4501 should be painted PRR passenger tuscan-red, with pin-striping on the boiler and wheels. Looked good on the 1223…..
David Notarius, London UK, ex New Hope Pa

Your Choice - Pick One; I'm going with Black - Add the Feedwater Heater, and you're pretty close to how she'll look coming out of the shop.

Then again, the 4501 could look nice in British Railways Blue....

Or how about 'Tornado' primer grey, with website info on the tender? Now, that'd make old Adolf go bonkers!

I'm with black! Looks like a working engine.

I agree. Anyway, about those other colors, once you go black, you'll never go back, as they say.

[pffff, whooooosh, pffff, whooooosh] Yes, the Dark Side is all powerful. [pffff, whooooosh] Come over to the Dark Side, 4501, and feel its Force. [pffff, whooooosh, pffff, whooooosh]

Does this indicate a final decision has been made?

As if to prove the point that these parodies can be beaten into the ground, yet ANOTHER one, this time about NKP 765:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5JSvu3TrA

From glancing at the video list next to that video, it seems as though one person is determined to beat it into the ground.

Why not just put googly-eyed faces on all steam locomotives and paint them blue?

Thanks, Jeff

Hey, don't forget red and green too