--- In [email protected], "Edward Loizeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Curious. Wouldn't modelling the late, GREAT PRR with brighter
colors with rolling hills be more interesting and fun than dull, gray
cars <snip> Jim "PENNSY PROUD on the Keystone Main" Lyle
>
> Dear Pennsy Proud.... First of all, there was nothing dull about
the 20th Century Limited. <snip> Cheers....Ed L. Historian
>
>
>If you two (and others) want to seriously understand the dynamics of
your chosen railroad's and how we got from PRR, NYC, SRR, N&W, C&O,
B&O ... to today, I would urge you to read: "The Men Who Loved
Trains", by Rush Loving, Jr. (2006, Indiana University Press)
Far from dull, the book is a great read about how the industry
limped through the 50's and 60's and ended up the merged vibrant
giants of today. The story is told through many of the folks in the
corporate structures all through that time. Thoroughly enjoyable,
entertaining and sometimes astounding, but... one caveat...
You'll need to have the courage to suspend "my railroad is better
than yours" at the door. The story pulls no punches with respect to
positives, negatives and hairy warts of all the players. History,
when it is not written by the winners, tends to be that way...
Enjoy...
Jim K.
P.S. The Sweetland book I reference earlier shows a bit of the
boiler house at Stryker, Ohio. Maybe enough to hash out a free-lance
structure.
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