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* In his poem "And That's Why I Always Take the Oakland Ferry to Beverly Hills", Creator/OdgenNash has two criticisms of how rail travel is portrayed in movies:
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* In his poem "And That's Why I Always Take the Oakland Ferry to Beverly Hills", Creator/OdgenNash Creator/OgdenNash has two criticisms of how rail travel is portrayed in movies:
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* In his poem "And That's Why I Always Take the Oakland Ferry to Beverly Hills", Creator/OdgenNash has two criticisms of how rail travel is portrayed in movies:
--> The first is that although for many years diesel and electric locomotives have been what the railroads and I and you choose,\\
He prefers to picture the Twentieth Century and the Broadway as being hauled by choo-choos.
--> The first is that although for many years diesel and electric locomotives have been what the railroads and I and you choose,\\
He prefers to picture the Twentieth Century and the Broadway as being hauled by choo-choos.
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Not to be confused with SteamPunk, though some of the artistic sentiment may overlap. Compare ExcessiveSteamSyndrome. Also [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has nothing to do]] with the UsefulNotes/DigitalDistribution [[Platform/{{Steam}} service]].
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** The original author of ''The Railway Series,'' Reverend Awdry, makes a ''point'' of enforcing this trope because he was extremely opposed to the "Dieselification" era of the British Railways during the 50's and 60's; Essentially, the British government and railway companies were so intent on bringing in the new "innovative" diesel engines that they began slating all of their steam locomotives, even ones that ''just rolled out of the factory'', for scrapping. Not only was this a massive waste of money, it also became a rather embarrassing issue when the diesels turned out to be...not as reliable as they were supposed to be. This is the reason why diesels in the series were usually depicted as the bad guys (with exceptions like Mavis and [=BoCo=]) and why many of them tended to suffer from mechanical breakdowns.
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** The original author of ''The Railway Series,'' Reverend Awdry, makes a ''point'' of enforcing this trope because he was extremely opposed to the "Dieselification" era of the British Railways during the 50's and 60's; Essentially, the British government and railway companies were so intent on bringing in the new "innovative" diesel engines that they began slating all of their steam locomotives, even ones that ''just rolled out of the factory'', for scrapping. Not only was this a massive waste of money, it also became a rather embarrassing issue when the diesels turned out to be...not as reliable as they were supposed to be. This is the reason why diesels in the series were usually depicted as the bad guys (with exceptions like Rusty, Mavis and [=BoCo=]) and why many of them tended to suffer from mechanical breakdowns.
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* ''Literature/AdrianMole'' lampshades this in ''True Confessions'', describing his train ''steaming'' into London, then remembering that steam is an erotic memory.
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* All of the LocomotiveLevels in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' feature steam locomotives shaped like either Bullet Bills or Bowser's face pulling said trains.
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Not to be confused with SteamPunk, though some of the artistic sentiment may overlap. Compare ExcessiveSteamSyndrome. Also [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has nothing to do]] with the UsefulNotes/DigitalDistribution [[UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} service]].
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Not to be confused with SteamPunk, though some of the artistic sentiment may overlap. Compare ExcessiveSteamSyndrome. Also [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has nothing to do]] with the UsefulNotes/DigitalDistribution [[UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[Platform/{{Steam}} service]].
