[PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Pittsburgh Rwy Cars]

[Fred W. Schneider III]

No, not grumpy curmudgeon.  Truth sometimes hurts.  The CERA book was
not much more that the Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club's 1952 Review of
the West Penn Railways with some additional pictures.  A lot of the
wrong facts from the 1952 16 page magazine (such as West Penn went out
of business because of television) were repeated in the CERA book
because no one every looked for the truth.  Both of those books sadly
show how truth can be biased by railfans printing what they want to
believe.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Greg King wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Roger,
> >
> > Sprining to Charlie's defence, whilst those books are excellent in their
> > colour coverage of these systems, I agree with Charlie and have said so
> > before, why has'nt Pittsburgh and for that matter Philly, New York, Boston,
> > New Jersey etc., deserved the same CERA type coverage as, West Penn, Fort
> 
> The West Penn coverage, while better than Pittsburgh, isn't really much to
> write home about either. Not to pick on CERA, necessarily, it's just not
> hard-core enough for my taste. It was a good read, when I first read it at
> age 11 or so;-)
> 
> -D
> -grumpy curmudgeon?