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Page 2, rear cover photo caption: "Shark" is model RF16 (PRR class BF16), date is after 1959, not c.1946.
Page 12, top photo: L1s #1159 has a 90F75 tender.
Page 15, center photo: CM Tower is at Milepost 347.8, not 348.
Page 16, center photo: Caption should read: "K4s #2112 with a westbound local...".
Page 27: First paragraph: Should read: "...the narrow portion of Virginia... ...the narrow stretch of land it crossed in present-day West Virginia."
Page 27, upper photo: Caption should read: "This is a view eastward..."
Page 28, upper left photo: Caption should read: "To the west of "PH" Tower..."
Page 28, center left photo: Caption should read: "...along with new "K" Tower..."
Page 29, lower left photo: Caption should read: "The tracks at the lower level..."
Page 31, bottom photo: The wrecker is #499415.
Page 39, bottom photo: The Union Line boxcar #504594 is class X23.
Page 40, upper left photo: Caption should read: "ALCo S3 (AS6) switching at Scully Yard..."
Page 40, upper right photo: Caption should read: "...ALCo S3 (AS6) #8884 at Scully Yard."
Page 41, upper right photo: The correct spelling is Canonsburg, Pa. station, not Cannonsburg.
Page 42, lower left photo: The correct spelling is Raccoon, Pa. station, not Racoon.
Page 48, bottom photo: The locomotive is E3a #2982.
Page 50, bottom photo: The H.J. Heinz boxcar is lettered HPFL #3042.
Page 51, center photo: The locomotive is 0-6-0 #7078, class B7b (converted from a class H3b 2-8-0).
Page 56, top photo: Westbound freight is pulled by L1s #1684.
Page 60, bottom photo: Caption should read: "...(#2 & #3 on the 1906 map; see p. 59)."
Page 63, center photo: Caption should read: "The yard was used for locomotive storage."
Page 67, bottom photo: Caption should read: "...Ambridge was named for the American Bridge Co...."
Page 70, top photo: Credit should be: "Frank Vogan, Jr. photo ..."
Page 72, upper right photo: Caption should read: "In this westward view is the partially-completed...".
Page 74, upper left photo: Caption should read: "...proper intervals, as is happening here."
Page 76, upper right photo: Scale test weight cars are class Y4 #490386 and class YB #490396.
Page 77, center photo: Caption should read: "...the Conway wreck train. Note that its wrecker is still..."
Page 80, upper photo: Caption should read: "...a good view of both hump yards..."
Page 85, upper right photo: #8951 is a Lima-Hamilton model T2500 (LS25M) transfer unit.
Page 87, center photo: May be of the Wellsville Shop Station, not the East Liverpool Station.
Page 87, lower left photo: Locomotive is I1sa #4394.
Page 87, lower right photo: Locomotives are #2024A and #9737A.
Page 88, lower right photo: Caption should read “….and the Mahoningtown Branch of the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula (PY&A) Railway (operationally part of the Erie & Pittsburgh Branch).”
Page 89, bottom photo: Caption should read: “Mahoning Avenue crossing shanty on the Mahoningtown Branch of the PY&A, operationally part of the Erie & Pittsburgh Branch. The PY&A “Fairgrounds” yard is ahead and the track to the right is the New Castle Branch of the Western New York and Pennsylvania (WNY&P) Railway.
Track Chart insert:
1) The title was omitted. The four sections were excerpted from the original entitled:
Pennsylvania System, Fort Wayne Track Chart, Alignment and Profile, Pittsburgh to New Galilee, Ohio, July 26, 1920.
3) The original chart erroneously labeled the town of West Economy as West Elizabeth, near Ambridge.
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