There's got to be a better way. The railway media have for a very long time being entirely dismissive of the man and everything he did. Perhaps the only way to beat back the continued diatribe is to write an article for the press.
How do you beat back fifty years of propaganda? Tell it like it is Tom. There's so much diatribe aimed at Thompson's engineering when I would argue there was a very large class of inferior Pacifics which are generally accepted as good machines. No prizes for guessing which!