{"id":330,"date":"2011-03-25T01:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-03-25T01:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T08:59:26","slug":"crazy-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Going Off the Rails on a Crazy Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though beardless Theo&#8217;s confrontation with the railroad men is one of my favorite parts of this story, it&#8217;s definitely an example of a place where I could have done more research. The problem was not a scarcity of reference material, but a superabundance of it. The train dorks of America have amassed so much great information out there on the history of U.S. railroads that, rather than choosing some of it, I opted to read none of it&#8230; besides, I had a comic to draw!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/800px-Santa_Fe_Route_Map_1891.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(a cool map of the now defunct <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Fe_Railroad\">Santa Fe Railroad<\/a>, from 1891.)<\/p>\n<p>One unfortunate result of my laziness is that the fictional railroad described in SNitLoE is frankly preposterous. At the end of the 19th century, Lubbock, TX was still not even a spot on the map, nor was Tuscon, AZ much better. It <em>is <\/em>true that a hypothetical railroad between these two nowhere towns would indeed pass approximately through the Las Cruces\/ White Sands area, but why would it? An actual ladder into the sun would be more useful.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve listened to the preachers, I&#8217;ve listened to the fools, I&#8217;ve watched all the dropouts who make their own rules.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Ozzy Osbourne, &#8220;Crazy Train,&#8221; summarizing my comic.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.savagenobles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Signature.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though beardless Theo&#8217;s confrontation with the railroad men is one of my favorite parts of this story, it&#8217;s definitely an example of a place where I could have done more research. The problem was not a scarcity of reference material, but a superabundance of it. The train dorks of America have amassed so much great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}