WEll guys, it seems we are not alone in compulsive collecting disorder when it comes to our model trains. I picked up a few things today at the LHS including a few Old Railroading books, a great wealth of information. Flipping through these books, I notice a common phenomenon in the photos. I would post them, but I am far enough from a scanner that I cannot get to it and then there might be copyright laws. The following instances are from "The American Heritage: History of Railroads in America" by Oliver Jenson. In one photograph is of a switcher staging yards of the Pennsy RR Baltimore yard that is no bigger then two football fields. The caption states that there are no less then FIFTY Locomotives in the picture. FIFTY! And all of them are steamed up. The environmentalists would SCREAM Second photograph is a prototype that reminds me almost perfectly of badger creek, there 13 locomotives in the picture...and this is just a steam logging railroad. So I guess this can just about justify that "new" purchase of "just one more" . Kind of nice being a "Dry." I turned 21 today the 22nd, and though most kids my age go straight out and smash themselves into the wall and then into the floor, I went to the LHS and spent my B-money on some new books to add to my MR Library...My Gain!!!! [ 23. October 2002, 06:13: Message edited by: Benny ]
Way to go Benny! NO do not post any photos from those books! The ONLY photos you can post anywhere, is a photo you have taken! I amassed all my engines throughout the years too. Some My Dad and I built together as I was growing up, some I built alone, some were kits, and a few I have bought that are the "toy" ready-mades. (We called the ready-to-run plastic engines, toys!)
Small caveat: Or a photo that you have permission from the photographer to post, but Watash is quite right, you shouldn't just scan & post things from books. I think I have seen this book you are talking about, it does have some great pics in it, but I was dissapointed by what seemed a very negative way that it covered what were modern operations when it was published, (back in the 70's, if it's the one I'm thinking of?)
