[PRCo] Re: PITTSBURGH PCC IN LOUISVILLE VIDEO BY HERRON [tan]

[Fred W. Schneider III]

You mean people actually believe that once it has been committed to film
or the printed page that it will be correct?  You're saying that the
purchasers, viewers, and readers cannot transfer the concept of human
weakness to authors and narrators?  Sad as it may sound, many believe
everything that is written simply because it was in a book.  The basic
premise is that it takes 1 unit of energy to make the mistake and 10,000
units of effort later to refute it, if it is even possible to snuff out
the mistake.   

My favorite example is a railfan and an author and publisher of many
books who once told me that accuracy didn't matter in his case because
he sold most of his output to the general public.  I wonder how he did
in history classes?  Or did he even take them?  This is one of those
people whose books I've found pages and pages and pages of errors.

And there was another author ... who, in rebutting hundreds of errors in
one of his books ... told the publisher that he was being picked on.  He
said, to his publisher, that on the basis of key strokes, the error rate
may have only been one in 5,000. Of course this worked out to a mistake
on every other page! 

Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> 
> And let's not forget, there is always the possibility that the narrator may
> be wrong. One well known and otherwise error free traction video's narration
> states the North Shore Line was abandoned January 1, 1963. The line was
> actually shut down on January 21, 1963.
> 
> ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> 
> > Well thats what the narrator said folks . Watching that segment taken in
> > the rain does not a number reveal !

The picture in PCC The Car that Fought Back is of 1253, with an Ingram
barn sign roll, in downtown Louisville.  And now, I did not retouch the
number.

Wasn't Herron the outfit that produced the Philly tape with a PCC coming
to a stop behind a auto at a traffic light in West Philly, accompanied
by a sound track of a car accelerating?