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Re: New SP Book
Author: WAF
Date: 07-24-2014 - 15:15

John Sweetser Wrote:
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> Jim wrote:
>
> >I thought the SPH&TS's book a few years ago
> "Southern Pacific's Golden Empire, 1954-1958" was
> very mediocre also. It was very repititious like
> multiple photos of the same train.
>
> This book also had really inaccurate photo
> captions. For example, the bottom photo on Pg.
> 120 was taken at Taylor Roundhouse, not at
> Bakersfield. The photo of the 1955 Pacific
> Railroad Society excursion train on pg. 140 didn't
> show it "leaving Bakersfield;" the photo was taken
> at Caliente. The photos of the 1958 excursion
> train on pgs. 164-165 weren't taken on "the Ojai
> Branch;" they were taken between Castaic and Piru
> on the Santa Paula Branch. The photo of the 1958
> excursion train on the bottom of pg. 169 was not
> taken "at Oxnard" but rather at Saugus.


Nothing new. Par for the course with Morning Glory. Get what you pay for

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