The annual April 1st warning...

Randy Hees · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:35 pm

Tradition suggests that tomorrow (April 1) will find the list inundated with a variety of creative posts. Some of these may be works of fiction… Some may have a hint of truth hidden by humor. So may be close enough to truth to hurt.

Enjoy the day, and the very creative thinking found on the board. Try not to take anything personally or too seriously.

Tomorrow we can return to discussions of park locomotives, rivets, faded paint and all those things which so excite us on a regular basis.

Your (occasionally) friendly moderators.

Randy

Trainlawyer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:06 pm

A longstanding tradition which even the Congress of the United States has seen fit to uphold. Having decided in their infinite wisdom that they could do a better job than the then management of the eastern railroads, the first day of operation of the Consolidated Railroad Corporation was, of course, the 1st of April 1976. Nothing that the often fertile imaginations of this board's participants can conjure from whole cloth will ever top the 4-R Act.

I have often wondered if the reality is that at least some of the votes were tendered in the belief that that the (in)famous Flying Bordello would somehow be based in Washington...

GME

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:40 pm

Oh, you're no fun anymore.

Yours, etc.

Mr. Sopwith

Trainlawyer · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:09 am

Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:

Oh, you're no fun anymore.

Yours, etc.

Mr. Sopwith
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Tell me Brother Camel, is a restored executive jet furnished with convertible couches considered Railway Preservation if we letter it for Penn Central?

Actually now that it is April 1st on the east coast I would like to announce the roll out of my fully operational Heritage PRR Electric Locomotive, a Loewy bodied 2-C+C-2 unit fully EPA and Amtrak certified, scheduled to be towed from the quarry by our shop switcher, a B-6 modified to burn natural gas, later today...

GME

dinwitty · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:18 pm **Posts:** 2226

May as well put a NYC tender behind the K4 and do that...

Becky Morgan · **Joined:** Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:22 pm **Posts:** 495

Put an NYC tender behind the K4 and the energy crisis will be solved. As Scott Adams proposed, just surround the graves of all of the Pennsy and NYC men with copper coils. When they start spinning in their graves, they'll power the continent.

car57 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:24 am

Im afraid by posting the warning you have taken all the fun and surprise out of the whole April fool idea.

Shame really

Mike

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2617

"Tell me Brother Camel, is a restored executive jet furnished with convertible couches considered Railway Preservation if we letter it for Penn Central?"

What about a locomotive bearing the name "Pan Am"?

Randy Hees · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:09 am

Likely to get a bit damp on the trans-Pacific route... and how will you deal with the gauge issues in Hawaii?

Randy

PaulWWoodring · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:47 am

Trainlawyer wrote:

A longstanding tradition which even the Congress of the United States has seen fit to uphold. Having decided in their infinite wisdom that they could do a better job than the then management of the eastern railroads, the first day of operation of the Consolidated Railroad Corporation was, of course, the 1st of April 1976. Nothing that the often fertile imaginations of this board's participants can conjure from whole cloth will ever top the 4-R Act.

I have often wondered if the reality is that at least some of the votes were tendered in the belief that that the (in)famous Flying Bordello would somehow be based in Washington...

GME

It took nearly 15 years to sort out the mess, but Conrail ended up becoming a very profitable and desirable merger partner, and (at least by some - see the CRHS) a fondly remembered fallen flag. It certainly gave more color and diversity to Northeastern railroading versus today.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:34 pm

Seeing as the posts in question are being tossed over to "Railfanning" by moderators, shouldn't this "warning" be sent over there to accompany them?

Overmod · **Joined:** Thu May 24, 2012 1:37 pm **Posts:** 2492

No, it should stay here, and a second warning be put over there... oh wait, I think it's too late!

Mgoldman · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:25 pm

car57 wrote:

Im afraid by posting the warning you have taken all the fun and surprise out of the whole April fool idea.
Shame really
Mike

I was just informed that the moderators will consequently allow April Fools jokes into tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2nd.

(Not! - lol).

/Mitch

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3013

Just curious... Is beating dead horses considered animal cruelty?

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:16 am

I was so looking forward to the location of the warehouse in Jersey, filled with stored GG1's.