I know the N&W Handbook from Wallace & Wiley has several errors in it. Is the SOU Handbook completely accurate? If errors exist, is there a source, such as a magazine or website, that corrects them?

-- Marty Flick (Golddenim@insight.rr.com), June 14, 2002

Answers

Enjoy the pictures, but the errors are so numerous and grievious, I would not trust any caption unless I had a corroborating, independent source. If you don't believe me, enjoy the pictures of the Northern Pacific Mallets on page 16. I particularly like the picture on page 32 of Ps4 no. 6475 allegedly pushing a freight up Saluda. It was really Erlanger Hill south of Cincinnati. Many captions were literally pulled out of the air. I don't know of a list of errors that has been published, but a friend of mine compiled several pages worth when the book first came out.

-- Jack Wyatt (cjwyatt@bellsouth.net), June 14, 2002.