Re: CPR 5900 Selkirk's west of Taft, BC.
- From: Derek Boles <derekboles@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:23:49 -0500
1b. Re: [casing] Re: CPR 5900 Selkirk's west of Taft, BC.
Posted by: "K V Railway" kvrailway@xxxxxxx kvrailway
Date: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:07 am ((PST))
Old-timers are sometimes quite aware of the historical value of their
material. They have their good reasons for not sharing this material,
frustrating as that may be to the modelling and rail-fan community.
And what, pray tell, would those good reasons be? I've encountered a number of
rail photographers or copyright owners of rail photographs who think that
they're sitting on top of some gold mine. Maybe they read the news stories of
some of these Ansel Adams or Winston Link photographs that are fetching a
fortune these days. Or they hear of some idiot on eBay with more money than
brains who pays $700 for a slide.
The vast majority of rail photographs are only of interest to railfans and
historians and I think these old-timers are dreaming if they think that some
billionaire collector is going to come along and make them rich. They've got a
better chance of that by buying lottery tickets.
Obviously these photographs are of interest to rail authors who can then share
them with the rest of the world in a publication. I haven't heard of any
millionaire rail authors since Lucius Beebe died half a century ago. Most rail
authors I know end up spending their own money to get their stuff in print when
you take into consideration the cost of acquiring decent prints from public
archives.
Derek Boles
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