[PRCo] Re: Rails to Pittsburgh

[Donald Galt]

On 13 Jun 01, at 9:24, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> 
> Especially in view of its editorial content!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> "Rails to Pittsburgh" is not a trolley book, but it has many
> railroad photos of locales that we often talk about on this
> list.  I refer to it regularly.  It has only a few trolley
> photos.  $70 seems a bit high for this book.
> 

Editorial content. Uh-huh.

The egregiously misnamed Superior Publishing, located in my 
home town, bore a lot of resemblence to a vanity publisher. Most of 
its titles - maritime and rail, mostly local or at least Western - were 
pretty much personal scrap books. the books might contain text if 
the authors/collectors chose to write it, but were innocent of any 
hint of editorial intervention.

That said, they were printed on high-quality paper (I'm not referring 
here to the bargain reprints by Bonanza) and photographic 
reproduction was, for the era, pretty good. And Superior's volumes 
contained material which otherwise might never have been seen. I 
don't reckon you'll find anything to replace "Rails to Pittsburgh." 

But, as Bob says, it is not a trolley book.

Don Galt
Seattle, WA