Poor Captions

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Gordon

This seems to be the consistent method of all of that Arcadia (I  
think) books, horribly researched, inaccurate information, etc. etc.  
I never bought the first one, but have glanced through them. There is  
one on Blacksburg, if I recall correctly, that has a photo of a Class  
J in the snow, at Christiansburg, with a caption not far from saying  
it is coming up Main Street in Blacksburg!

It immediately turned me against a purchase of any of their books.

Ken Miller

On May 25, 2007, at 9:15 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> What has to take the cake for one of the worst railroad photo  

> captions ever appears on Page 68 of the Images of America book on  

> Bluefield, WV under a familiar publicity picture of the N & W's  

> Powhatan Arrow.  The second sentence of the caption reads:

>

> The Powhatan Arrow, the eastbound train, and Pocahontas, the  

> westbound train, ran day trips between Norfolk, Virginia, and  

> Cincinnati, passing the half-way point at Tip Top in Tazewell  

> County, Virginia.

> I don't have to tell Mailing Listers that the Powhatan Arrow and  

> Pocahontas were separate trains that each operated daily in both  

> directions, but I'll point out that Tip Top is on the Clinch Valley  

> branch, quite a ways from the mainline used by both trains.

>

> What is disturbing about such careless writing is that some day  

> this information may be taken as gospel by some historical  

> researcher perusing this book.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

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