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That is if you can ignore their subtle racism towards diesel engines.
I cannot say for certain, and I might be reading too far into it, but there was always a negative connotation for the more modern locomotives.
The first to be on the show was Diesel. Either Ringo Starr or George Carlin, depending on your nationality, referred to Diesel as oily.
Is oily really such a bad thing? So many men, and women, oiled their hair in order to make it shiny, perhaps gilded even.
