In a message dated 5/8/03 3:18:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
budapest@g... writes:
> Once again I'm reminded by a friend to post Cathedral of Steel, 2nd edition.
> I never had any intentions of a second edition but because the book found
> so many readers, information started to come back in my direction. I was
> steered to railroad photographer Jim Shaughnessy who allowed me to use a
> handful of photographs he took inside Galesburg's Q roundhouse in 1956.
> What I tried to convey in print, Mr. Shaughnessy had captured on film.
> Some of these photos make one feel as if they could reach out and touch
> 1956. We've added new maps, plus a very rare map that was found buried in
> the library downstate Illinois showing the Q yard in Galesburg in 1861.
>
> John Hagrelius told me that I had him in a photo as a roundhouse foreman,
> he said he was a general foreman but that he didn't suppose it made any
> real difference anymore. I promised him that if there was ever another
> edition, I would get his title right. This new edition has corrected many
> a small error, so important is it to these men and women of Galesburg, of
> the Q.
>
> Ordering information can be found on the BRHS web site, thank you again,
> William A. Franckey
>
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