Re: (erielack) Trains Screws up Again -- Anthracite RR Map

["Bradley Butcher" <llyengalyn_@_hotmail.com>]

Aye, historical Inaccuracy is very annoying.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Stuy<mailto:njmidland_@_verizon.net> 
  To: EL Mail List<mailto:erielack_@_lists.railfan.net> 
  Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:48 PM
  Subject: Re: (erielack) Trains Screws up Again -- Anthracite RR Map


  Jim,

  I hope you will write Trains so at least they are on notice of these
  omissions.

  Tim

  On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com<mailto:jguthrie@pipeline.com>> wrote:

  > The new Trains magazine popped into my mailbox today, with its map of the
  > "Anthracite Railroads Today."
  >
  > The first howler is the omission of the NYS&W/WB&E -- which carried more
  > anthracite than the O&W (though the Erie buried the numbers for competitive
  > reasons. Also omitted is the DS&S, although not lasting very long, also
  > carried more anthracite than the O&W. I suppose one could also be nit-picky
  > and note that the L&NE's route to the Port of NY is not showm although that
  > was a pretty busy route too.
  >
  > The NYS&W's Edgewater Terminal was one of the busiest anthracite tidewater
  > terminals of all -- yet is omitted as well, but the Erie at Weehawken(!!!)
  > **is** shown. If Weehawken is "important" for the Erie, then the DS&S and
  > L&NE should have been shown; And considering that most of the Erie's
  > anthracite was dumped at Edgewater -- and not Weehawken  after 1906 -- makes
  > it even more annoying in its omission.
  >
  > I wonder if there'd be any interest in a map that shows the railroads that
  > actually shipped anthracite and where the anthracite was consigned over the
  > years?
  >
  > Take that map -- and then re-do this map to show what happened to those
  > routes might be a revelation.
  >
  > In any case, I am again irritated by railfan mythology overtaking railroad
  > history here: the Northern Field Map last year had a few nitpicky errors;
  > the NY Harbor Map had a bunch of real howlers, and this one is delightful as
  > far as it goes, but doesn;t thell the story that **is**anthracite.
  >
  > Cheers,
  > Jim Guthrie
  > ELHS #1296
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