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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