WAF Wrote:
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> 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


Not sure if you read my post, that I wasn't referring to a Morning Sun book. I was referring to the SPH&TS book. MS does have a lot of caption errors but at least the photography and flow of the books are pretty good.

I'm reading one of the Four Ways West Milwaukee Diesel books now. While interesting, it is just repititious over and over. How many roster shorts of Milwaukee H-12-44s do you need - over and over? I find a lot of Tom Strauss' work to be like that - good but way to repetive. Morning Sun books at least keep me interested and not bored.