Iron Horseman
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I am really bummed out. I had a few minutes between activities so I picked up one of my "photo reference" train books about passenger train streamliners. As I thumbed through it, I found several items in the captions that I know are incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't tell what is really wrong the picture or the caption. I just know they don't match. Wrong location, wrong train name, wrong date??? Sigh. I generally depend on these (expensive) sorts of books for information about the prototype. Finding so many blatant errors makes me wonder how much more is incorrect for the more subtle items that I know nothing about. I've definitely added this author to my questionable list, and if I can find the editor I'll add them to. An editor that has any idea about the subject matter should have caught these.
This is one reason one should always be ready to take a second look and reconsider something they "know" from reading a book when someone else shares conflicting information. Just cause it is written in a book, or worse posted on the internet, doesn't make it true.
This is one reason one should always be ready to take a second look and reconsider something they "know" from reading a book when someone else shares conflicting information. Just cause it is written in a book, or worse posted on the internet, doesn't make it true.
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