Poor Captions

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In a related topic...

It also worries me that with modern technology, a lot of folks are 
"colorizing" old photos, OR, creating "what if" photos, by using photo shop 
to change elements of the photo around, for example, changing numbers on 
locomotives, or adding track side structures or tree to certain spots, to 
make it "perfect"

This practice seems to run rampart on some narrow gauge DRGW message boards, 
it is only a matter of time before some well meaning folks make the "perfect 
picture" here, post it online to show some friends, and whammo...it is out 
in circulation.

It is only a matter of time before one of these modified photos show up in a 
book "as proof" as the way it was.

Andy Jennings


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Subject: Re: Poor Captions



> 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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