The author doing the Morning Sun book has had family work for the railroad and
has done extensive research speaking to present and former employees of the
railroad. He lives next to the line in question and has been shooting it
almost
daily for 25+ years. I have full confidence that this will be an excellent
book.
I do see your point about MSB in general. The captions in some of their other
books have been off in many cases and the whole refusal to use anything but
slides, but for someone like me who was born too late to see the roads, I can't
complain too loudly. I was born about 30 years too late!
Bryan J. Howell
tubaman21@yahoo.com
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From: Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 1:15:41 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Strauss books
Re: An un-named book about a Chicago area railroad that has been
criticized-
> Fear not Charlie. Morning Sun will have a book on the railroad in
> question
> coming soon. The author of the Morning Sun book has been very active
> on that
> railroad's yahoo group and promises it will be better.
Morning Sun? Since when has Morning Sun done the very least to vet
its authors, perform fact checking, require citation of sources,
correct captions, etc. ? They are good (mostly) photo books extremely
useful for prototype modelers, etc., but the written content otherwise
cannot be relied upon unless there is some personal knowledge.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento
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