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 Posted - April 11 2015 : 11:21:18 AM
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Decided to start a new thread, I was reading the Dick Tracy Cartoon this past Monday, and it's starting a new adventure, this time a "billion dollar train" with a country's gold on it, is passing through the USA. So I photo'd the first two days, I don't get a paper every day, so may have to try to find this one online. Anyway, enjoy! And if you run across any more trains in cartoons, post them here! :) Now, the real trivia will be - what engine is that pulling the train? LOL!
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 Posted - April 11 2015 : 11:55:13 AM
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Ah, CarTOONS with trains, that makes more sense.
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Posted - April 11 2015 : 3:05:31 PM
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Yeah, I want a carton of trains, please. 
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Posted - April 11 2015 : 9:29:07 PM
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quote:Yeah, I want a carton of trains, please.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â April 11 2015Â :Â 3:05:31 PM
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I'm sending Microbuss some soon. Oops! I spent most of the day cleaning house, I was tired. I got that title wrong.
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Posted - April 11 2015 : 9:31:37 PM
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quote:
I'm sending Microbuss some soon. Oops! I spent most of the day cleaning house, I was tired. I got that title wrong.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â April 11 2015Â :Â 9:29:07 PM
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I certainly HOPE so!  jk
Since I did PAY you what I owed you!
What I get will be amazing & COTW
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Posted - April 11 2015 : 11:24:44 PM
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I am going to be /that guy/ and identify the loco in the cartoon newspaper - an SD70ACe, I think.
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 1:21:34 PM
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Anyone see the Max Fleischer Superman Cartoon "BILLION DOLLAR LIMITED"
Also last years "Gasoline Ally " had for lack of a better term saga about railroading Model and Otherwise
It's online somewhere
(did not know Rover was a dad)
And Dacwood Bumstead has Lionel his passenger set has ALOT of dining cars
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 Posted - April 12 2015 : 4:50:14 PM
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hey Have we forgotten about For Better or Worse comic when there was about 2 weeks of train comics?
Course the train set a G scale he bought does show up here & there
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 6:53:47 PM
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Nice bit. It was not so long ago that Dick Tracey wrist watch
phones were total science fiction. Oh, if I knew then what
I know now.
I remember that For Better or Worse segment with "John's"
trains. I recollect reading something that the cartoonist's
husband was a model rail head.
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 8:23:06 PM
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true, Chops
Only it was a Two-Way Radio Wrist Watch
I heard that too
Also heard the guys at Kalmbach Publishing would cut out & hang the comics near their desks hehe
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Posted - April 12 2015 : 8:23:41 PM
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| Yes Garden Scale I met him and his cartoonist wife Lynn Johnston at a trade show
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Posted - April 13 2015 : 10:23:08 AM
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When the "Blondie" strip began, Blondie was a flapper and Dagwood was heir to the Bumstead Locomotive Works (which would be like heir to Boeing or Microsoft now). When the Great Depression hit it was decided that no one would want to read about the exploits of a millionaire playboy so the premise was changed to what we know now.
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Posted - April 13 2015 : 10:30:26 AM
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I love it that Bill Watterson knew enough or paid enough attention to make the locomotives look like GEs.
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I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - April 25 2015 : 9:24:47 PM
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quote:
I love it that Bill Watterson knew enough or paid enough attention to make the locomotives look like GEs.
Originally posted by gmoney - April 13 2015 : 10:30:26 AM
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Love "Calvin and Hobbes!" Bill Watterson always drew highly-detailed objects and backgrounds, and it made an interesting contrast with the cartoony characters.
Here's another one with a nicely-rendered GE locomotive (must be a Dash 8-40BW)...
(Calvin has quite the imagination to compare a baseball with a speeding train!)
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 02:01:18 AM
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 I've actually seen those 2 Calvin and Hobbes comic strips.I do agree, they did put a lot of effort into making those engines look like GE's. They could've just made a generic diesel engine with little detailing but no, Watterton actually took the time to make them look nice and strangely realistic.
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Posted - July 01 2016 : 11:23:39 AM
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A new addition. I like this cartoon, for other reasons, but since they mentioned miniature trains, I had to copy and paste it here. :)
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Posted - July 01 2016 : 4:05:06 PM
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Nice photos. These next one are from Amazing Spiderman issue 10.
Our hero fighting a villain inside the railroad tunnel connecting France and England.
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Posted - July 01 2016 : 4:35:39 PM
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Another adventure from issue 210 this time with model trains.
He saves the lady but damages some trains.
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Posted - July 02 2016 : 3:01:27 PM
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Scenes from Spiderman issue 45 from 1966.
Still amazing after all these years.
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Posted - July 02 2016 : 3:06:04 PM
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Scenes from Spiderman issue 133.
View from Manhattan Bridge.
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Posted - July 02 2016 : 3:48:35 PM
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real cool
but wasn't there a thread in here about children's train books?
Or was that on another site?
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Posted - July 02 2016 : 7:26:02 PM
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Bruce Wayne had trains as a boy
NO SUPERMAN????????
Also an issue of Fantastic Four in the eighties had aliens using trains A Big Boy
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Posted - July 02 2016 : 10:20:17 PM
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quote:Bruce Wayne had trains as a boy
NO SUPERMAN????????
Also an issue of Fantastic Four in the eighties had aliens using trains A Big Boy
Originally posted by thesiding - July 02 2016 : 7:26:02 PM
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here is Superman with train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBiH0RUidro
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Posted - July 03 2016 : 11:12:33 AM
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I met animator Myron Waldman back in 1992 And Jay Horton about eight years later Both worked on this series of Superman cartoos. Myron is credited as animator in this one
He claimed that the staff did research on how railroads worked to get an authentic feel for this short
Almost 75 years old still holds up
Also the Fleischers did "Play it safe" a cartoon which featured tinplate trains for a 3 D effect
And why Superman was one of my favs "More Powerful Then a Locomotive"
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Posted - July 03 2016 : 7:48:37 PM
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oh you mean this one?
yeah this a good one too
& Max was using models for that "3D" effect in scenes
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Posted - July 03 2016 : 9:51:03 PM
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Yep Segments of this were shown on Shining Time Station
Pretty sure the train is a Marx
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Posted - July 06 2016 : 2:51:11 PM
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Some old Gumby episodes from the 1950s with model trains in them...
This episode has a Marx O-scale train set, with the train pulled by a Marx 666 2-4-2 steam locomotive with ATSF tender. Marx crossing signals and telephone poles are also seen.
Another Gumby episode with a Marx train scene. Note that Pokey operates a Revell power pack, and the clips of the train initially approaching were actually taken from the original Gumby pilot short, showing a train pulled by a Marx 333 locomotive and tender with New York Central markings.
This has an HO "Yardbird" 0-4-0 steam engine and tender from HObbyline, along with an O-scale Lionel 2035 2-6-4 postwar steam locomotive (animated on two-rail O track from Primer for greater realism.) They covered up the railroad names on the tenders of the locomotives (the latter was probably for copyright reasons.)
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Posted - July 06 2016 : 5:19:43 PM
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| course there are MOUNTAINS of collector toys in all the Gumby episodes
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Posted - July 07 2016 : 5:45:14 PM
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A Lionel 2035 was used as well
AND
In the short The Small Planets A Bratty Davey lookalike rides a Revell HO Train with missile Launcher
it was made for the short NOT one produced by any company
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Posted - July 09 2016 : 12:03:59 AM
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quote:A Lionel 2035 was used as well
AND
In the short The Small Planets A Bratty Davey lookalike rides a Revell HO Train with missile Launcher
it was made for the short NOT one produced by any company
Originally posted by thesiding - July 07 2016 : 5:45:14 PM
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Yup, the episode I posted "Train Trouble" has the Lionel 2035. It was in a few other episodes as well, such as "A Bone for Nopey" and "Point of Honor."
Ah yes, "The Small Planets." That sure was a bratty boy, but his trains were cool! (But that episode seems more famous for the piano-playing boy who turns into a monster when his arpeggio is interrupted!)
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Posted - July 11 2016 : 7:51:54 PM
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| Sometimes that scene is cut
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Posted - July 11 2016 : 10:51:52 PM
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these Gumby shows are now showing up in DVD collections
I got the 1st 2
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Posted - March 17 2017 : 12:25:16 AM
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| Out of Scale A Donald Duck cartoon aired on TCM Donald has an outdoor railroad
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Posted - March 17 2017 : 8:06:22 PM
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quote:Out of Scale A Donald Duck cartoon aired on TCM Donald has an outdoor railroad
Originally posted by thesiding - March 17 2017 : 12:25:16 AM
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oh this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fj5BU9QTeE
yeah I wanna do the train in HO or G hehe
there is a whole book on railroads of Walt Disney
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Posted - March 17 2017 : 9:26:24 PM
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yes AND some of the comments are just sad
It was released 15 years before I was born
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Posted - March 17 2017 : 11:48:35 PM
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Ahhh, Gumby. I remember that from when I was like three years old!
Used to love the train action, but that segment where the train would
advance on this small section of track used to bug the heck out of me!
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 2:51:05 PM
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Popular character.
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 2:52:21 PM
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Vintage hero.
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 3:09:19 PM
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What a good boy scout.
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 3:24:08 PM
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The original boy scout.
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 3:46:34 PM
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Fantastic Four 354
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 3:55:56 PM
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AND Dagwood
Aso Dag's Passenger train is all DINING CARS
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 6:06:38 PM
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quote:Fantastic Four 354
Originally posted by thesiding - July 07 2022 : 3:46:34 PM
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that STRONGLY resembles a UP Big boy
also Batman had a steam train in the 60s I think
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Posted - July 07 2022 : 11:00:21 PM
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| IT IS The aliens in the issue modeled it after the real one
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 Posted - July 17 2022 : 10:38:15 AM
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Interesting cartoon from way back in the day.
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Posted - July 17 2022 : 10:54:55 AM
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Walt Disney classic.
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Posted - July 17 2022 : 11:30:54 AM
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I think that Donald Duck toon is on that special DVD release of The Chronological Donald, Volume Four
but I only have the 1st volume & looking for those 
Also Bat Train pix
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Posted - July 17 2022 : 2:39:13 PM
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| WELL sure has the wealth for it
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Posted - July 18 2022 : 08:34:48 AM
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quote:WELL sure has the wealth for it
Originally posted by thesiding - July 17 2022 : 2:39:13 PM
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true & I'd not mind the train in HO scale hehe
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Posted - July 18 2022 : 12:56:36 PM
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| WELL Lionel has Bat themed things now too expensive for me
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