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   big G 3469 said, 3 months ago

   “LooK, Listen LIVE!!”

   This is true!!

   Real Trains are not playthings!!!

   Respect the Trains & the Railroad crossings!!!!

   For railroad safety info,

   log on to www.operationlivesaver.org!

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   TexasProudCowgirl said, 3 months ago

   A pretty dark lesson at that! Sheesh! This is One Big Happy, right?

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   mike salvatore said, 3 months ago

   hey, lets steal from a 50’s lionel catalog cover for the
   first pane l!!!!!!! noe one will spot it and we won’t have to pay for the artwork!!!

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   mike salvatore said, 3 months ago

   let’s swipe the artwork from a 50’s Lionel catalog!
   no one will know and we won’t have to pay for the art work!

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   pdino said, 3 months ago

   “Press ‘one’ to meet your maker”! Excellent.

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   jrs111456 said, 3 months ago

   Wonder if anyone was “INTEXTICATED”

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   Carmy said, 3 months ago

   Ya think so, Ruthie?

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   ♠Lonewolf♠ said, 3 months ago

   I am still in to those Lionel Trains. Sometimes my son and I have “accidents” too!

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   nighthawks said, 3 months ago

   …and easy going eddie is just sitting down to his dinner in the club car when suddenly, the Jihadist terrorist blows up the track with the new Lionel exploding IED!
   curse you , you terrorists!

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    On one of the Tulsa TV news programs, there was a story about driving while texting on cell phones. It was called “Driving while intexticated.

    There are actually 4 different lessons in Frank’s story which he illustrated with the cars, the dolls and the trains.

    All of them have to do with safety.

    If Frank, the Dad, had not been in the last panel, one would have thought it was a story and game made up by Joe and Ruthie themselves. They do tell their parents those kinds of stories.

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    johnparadox said, 3 months ago

    For some reason, this reminds me of the trains on The Addams Family.

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    big G 3469 said, 3 months ago

    Here are some true stories that i found.

    This is from a video the I found on YouTube about a woman from Hammond Indiana in a minivan with two of her children on board racing to the railroad crossing trying to beat a Eastbound freight train, as she got to the crossing she didn’t see a high speed Westbound freight that was also crossing the railroad crossing & her minivan was crushed by the Westbound freight train & killed her two kids! ( The Woman died of her injuries four days later)

    www.youtube.com/”mom in van tries to outrun train, train wins!”

    And last week in in San Diego California, A man and his four year old daughter were at a San Diego Trolley light rail crossing, The man decided to cross the crossing (even thought the warning bell & lights were on & the crossing arms were down!) crossed the crossing not seeing the trolley coming & the trolley strucked both the man & his daugher! (The man survived but his daughter died at the hospital E.R.)

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    Basqueian said, 3 months ago

    My great grandfather, my grandfather and my father all worked for the Illinois Central Railroad, my grands as engineers, my dad as a telegrapher. The very first thing I ever learned about trains is not to get in front of one, and never to step on the tracks. Its not like they can chase you down, you know where they are going to go. And umpteen tons of train cannot stop on a dime when they see you. Both my grands had hit things, people, animals and vehicles, and there’s not a thing you can do but sit there in the cab and watch some idiot meet his maker while the horn blows. Anyone who even thinks about going around a crossing guard, trying to “beat” a train to a crossing or do anything but get across a deserted track deserves to be struck dead by Darwin or God or lightning or something, but it really messes up the engineer, so I would prefer they commit suicide some other way.

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    HelenasCookies said, 3 months ago

    Judging by the locations the trains are coming from, Rick Detorie must be from Maryland - those are both two MD towns

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    Diana said, 3 months ago

    Back when I lived in Wichita Ks. there wasn’t hardly a month that went by, some idiot didn’t get hit trying to dart across the tracks.

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    Chikuku said, 3 months ago

    This strip should be widely reprinted and distributed so it can save lives. And now we know where Joe and Ruthie get their wicked imagination - from Dad. By the way, I saw this strip a couple of years ago - but minus the top 3 panels, which the Chicago Sun-Times left out. This is the first time I’ve seen the whole page!
    And thank you, Helenas Cookies, for supplying the geographical data!

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    jelindley said, 3 months ago

    This does make a good PSA, doesn’t it? No Ruthie, Daddy’s not trying to teach you a lesson. Now pay attention so you’ll learn, OK? :)