Poor Captions

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Andy, I completely agree. Related to this is my ongoing commentary  
about so-called Museums painting equipment incorrectly, with wrong  
lettering styles, or painting things for roads that they never  
served. This is just as bad, if not worse, as it will eventually  
appear in a publication, somewhere, and, like Gordon says, it will be  
taken as historical "fact", not to mention the equipment being   
presented incorrectly to the public who even today takes it as fact.

Ken Miller
On May 26, 2007, at 2:41 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> 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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>> 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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