Allan Would've Caught It

If Allan had not caught it, you can bet that I would have!

Good catch!  Amusing, thanks!

Wouldn't that mean that the CanPac Diesel most likely went through a red signal???

I would like to think that I would have caught it.  I did notice it when I received the magazine, if that counts for anything.

But as Rich noted, he would have caught it if I hadn't, assuming it was a photo for our magazine.  I select the images and Rich preps them for our design team.  Between the two of us--and sometimes even one of the designers--we generally manage to cage the gremlins.

But things do slip by on rare occasions--a derailed locomotive or car in a photo, for example.  Sometimes you look at something so often that you tend to look right past the glitches.

Kent is a good friend and he has one heck of a fine theme layout.  I would be content to be 1/10th the modeler he has become since I first met him and his dad back in the early 90s.  I can even the some small credit for getting him hired at Kalmbach, and he has more than justified my faith and confidence in him and his abilities.

The truth be told, I have more than my share of screw-ups from time to time with our magazine.  Fortunately most of them escape the notice of our readers, or if they don't escape notice, they aren't reported to me.

My beloved pooch and faithful companion is in the vet hospital tonight, so I really can't sweat the small stuff.  I'm going to have a stiff Scotch on the rocks and try to get a bit of sleep.

You do a fine job at OGR Allan. As for the green signal, to a professional like you or Rich it would be a major goof, but to a big kid like me who likes to play choo choo it's just anothr pretty light.

Allan

Hope everything is OK with your dog. 

Things like that slip by - it takes a keen eye and all that. 

Run 260 (this past Christmas) featured a Superstreets track with trolley right on te middle of the cover, but without the transition track piece needed to make sure the trolley (or anything else) runs smoothly does not derail when it goes in and out of he curves. I had looked through the magazine many times before my son, who never missed anything in his thirty years, pointed it out to me.

Stuff happens.

 Nevertheless, best wishes for Pepper in the Vet Hospital.

Good luck with your dog Allan.  We had our dog in the Vet hospital last year at this time.  It took $2100+ dollars to get her back.

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Dennis

Gentlemen,

   A good chuckle for us kids who had fathers that worked for the Union Switch & Signal,

that built all the different electrical gear for the Railroads.  Seeing it made me think the same thing, Allen and Rich would have caught that mistake before the picture was ever released, and my layouts are not reality based at all.

PCRR/Dave

 there are so many ways  that signal could be wired up,i thought its kind of quick to pass judgement without knowing.maybe its wired to show a position of a switch. i could relate the march ctt cover shot to modern model railroading more so than alot of others i have seen.-jim

The train is running in reverse.

Allan,

I hope your dog comes through OK, and is home soon!

Fred

Best wishes for your pooch Allan. I hope the dog does well.

I've always found a scotch (or two or....) to be a good thing.

BTW, I really think it was the Editor's fault for that being on the cover. I wouldn't have commented on an inside picture.

Gerry

Ever wonder why nothing ever happens to your dog until the weekend? Then you have no choice but to go to the Emergency Vet, where it costs you $200 (up front) just to walk through the door, then after spending the price of 3 new command diesels, you still end up going to your regular vet on Monday to get your dog well.

Same thing happened to me with that other magazine. The last subway photo was scrapped from my list to use but somehow it made it into the article. Green signal, train going the opposite way along with the incorrect caption! 

Aside from leaving out the other 4 main modules that were in the original track diagram, it slid by. 

Blame it on media apprentice I guess, LOL!

Hard to find good help these days. 

How does one know the engine on the cover is not a trailing A unit with the engines being dead headed and traveling left to right. There are 2 engines in the photo back to back. It also looks like the engine has no lights on which is further evidence it is a trailing A unit.

I do not know how a real railroad works. However, on my little empire I wire the signals to turn red after the engines pass the signal.