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So I was in the LHS Friday and picked up the latest run 266 of OGR and the October issue of CTT.

Looking through the CTT issue over the weekend I read with interest the article on page 57 by Stan Trzoniec about custom building a station platform.

Great article with really nice pictures; BUT!

Picture 14 on the upper left corner of page 60 shows a detail of a stairway and hand railing. Notice anything odd?

The hand rail is completely backwards, or upside down. Yet the stair treads are correct. How could anyone think this looks normal?

Don't get me wrong; I don't consider myself overly critical, but........

Anyone else notice this??

 

Rod

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Not everything goes perfectly in a building project. This guy at the bottom of the skinny ladder can't believe I left off any kind of safety railing at all (Reading Central, OGR Run 247 and 248). I bet a few readers around the country were thinking the same thing at the time. I wonder how they got that big barrel up those steps.

 

It's a good thing that OSHA is still a few decades in the future according to the time frame of this railroad.

 

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Jim

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Rod,

 

You're right about the kitbashed Bachmann coaling tower serving as a small mine tipple. Those are just barrels on a rack though and not a barbeque. We treat our little employees good but not that good.

 

It took me a while to get used to how carefully some readers peruse their magazines. I had a question from a reader once about my source for a certain freight car in a photo. Turned out that he had spotted the car even though only a tiny portion of it was visible 5 yard tracks over from the scene I was really shooting.

 

It's very satisfying to know that people are reading and examining photos so thoroughly. It really keeps the author (and the editors) on their toes.

 

Jim

 

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