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Re: [CBQ] 1936 Shippers Guide

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] 1936 Shippers Guide
From: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:24:15 -0500
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Julian,

Thanks for providing the guide.

I have most of Ted's guides. I have also shared some with Ted that he has had printed. They are great source of material for model railroaders and historians.
One caution on these is many of the guides are mostly complete only at 
competitive points (i.e. there were two or more railroads serving that 
city/town/village). Other locations that are only served by the railroad 
that provided the guide often has cities/towns/villages omitted or 
incomplete information for them.
And on the Reynolds & Reynolds Guides, you can not assume a customer 
listed has a siding or spur that serves it. They maybe an infrequent 
team track customer. Guides published past-World War II were much better 
in making this distinction.
Bill HIrt

Keeping that in mind, they are still an excellent source of information.

On 8/12/2022 11:31 PM, Julian Erceg via groups.io wrote:
And an additional note of caution, for what it’s worth. I also have a 
Santa Fe book (not scanned yet), also published by Reynolds and 
Reynolds, and I’ve noticed obvious omissions; sometimes a city would 
be left off entirely for certain categories.  It almost seems like 
they sent a questionnaire out for the various divisions to fill out 
and whatever they got in return is what got published; there would be 
variations on how things were listed in each category, some cities 
would include the notations about whether the industry had a private 
spur, but some wouldn’t, etc.  I haven’t studied the CB&Q book much so 
I don’t know if it is better, but it seems similar.  Ted might more 
information as to how the books were made, and if some railroads have 
better books than others, or if it is a Reynolds and Reynolds 
characteristic of all of them.


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