Wednesday, April 1, 2026

The Kolossus of IRM

The museum business can be rather challenging at times; it's not easy to get all the publicity we want and deserve, although we have a lot to offer, of course.  We need something new and exciting to pull in ever bigger crowds.  Our planned Visitor Center will go a long way towards fulfilling that goal, and we encourage everybody to donate what you can to its construction.  But one of our previous General Managers thought that we should also have something even more exciting and stupendous: the Kolossus of IRM!


This will be a huge concrete statue of Nick Kallas bestriding Main Street, welcoming the masses into our Museum.  It is planned to be about 120' tall, and it will certainly be the most astounding tourist attraction of its sort anywhere this side of North Korea.

Now we realize that this may not be everybody's cup of tea.  And in fact, when the idea was proposed at the most recent Board meeting, the discussion became rather heated, to say the least.  But the survivors agree that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we can't afford to miss.  So please donate today!   Do not send cash or stamps.  No refunds.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Randall - Great piece! I really think the statue needs to reflect the Nick conveyed in "Honest Nick's Used 'L' Car Lot" (as conceived by Pete Vesic). Have a magical day, Art

Samuel D. Polonetzky, P.E. said...

Just like POTUS (as they clacked in the Phillips Code.) EXCEPT Nick earned it. I personally prefer the appellation to the interchange track "Nick's home for wayward locomotives." Thank you Nick.

Ted Kuhn said...

The Kolossus of Rail-Rhodes!