Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 26, 2018

Good morning™, rail riders!

Sawtooth continues on without his dearly (?) departed partner. It’s not quite the relaxing experience he prefers. According to Google Maps, it’s about 15 hours by car from Ernie’s in Columbia, MO, to Minot, ND. It probably takes about the same amount of time riding in a boxcar.

http://worldofdt.info/img/toMinot.jpg

That container labeled poison. Isn’t just there for decoration! LOL

Didnt I tell you Sawtooth had a secret money stash? Pity he won’t make it there.

Aww…..wanted to actually see Grimm get the Jaws treatment.Anyways, this story is really good!!!

That canister labeled Poison is there for a story reason I think. Surprised that a rail car with contents like that, has the door still open. Obviously Sawtooth opened it to get inside, but a rail employee might spot it & slam it shut & locked.It seemed strange to me that Grimm was supposed to be carrying all of Sawtooths money with him to the “job” at the Tracy house.

We will see Grimm one last time even if he is under a white sheet.

From when I was in the Air Force, a favorite saying was, why not Minot?

Good morning™, switchmen (and switchladies) !

Me ’n Waltzing Matilda have hit the road….. The railroad that is !

Does the poison portend a train wreck where ’toothy becomes awash in that stuff and becomes an ex person ?

Would be neat if it were a powerful acid, it is broken out and all that is left of tablesaw is a heavy vapor cloud and his stainless steel choppers.

Remarkably free of blood as well ..

Grimm Gambled and lost—the race, the money, and apparently his life

Meanwhile , Dick Tracy still lies on the ground unconscious, because of his gross ineptitude

Did anyone else here read Sawtooth’s first comment in a Martin the Martian voice? :D

Where’s Timmy? You’d think he’d be all over this by now! An obvious Sweatbox ending coming right up!

I guess Grimm was" chewed up" by Sawtooth?

I have to stop at train crossings a few times each week and I never see any of them traveling with boxcar doors open LOL

24 days until the Minit Mystery starts. I figure there’s going to be a few strips dedicated to ongoing subplots before then.

Can anyone decipher the meaning of the symbol inside the circle just to the right of the word “oison”? Could it represent a schematic for a chemical formula?

Can we assume Grim(M) met a grim ending? Maybe he’s just taking a Midnight Train to Georgia?

Besides the tanks of poison, what do you suppose is in the drums, toxic waste?

I wonder if Sawtooth will run into Lee Marvin & Ernest Borgnine on that train…

We don’t really know what exactly became of Grimm, but it seems clear enough that it wasn’t pleasant. Since Sawtooth has hopped a freight, though, we may conclude that Grimm met his fate on or near the tracks, where the northbound train that Sawtooth is riding would have passed. Sawtooth is presumably aware enough of train routes and destinations (as a regular train rider, remember) to know that eventually this ride will get him to Minot and his secret stash.

I think, however, that the “poison” drum is not a plot-point so much as just colorful background to help set the mood….