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Posted by Express Rider on Tue May 26 06:42:34 2020, in response to Re: BMT Canarsie Line history question., posted by Elkeeper on Mon May 25 16:19:14 2020. re: All, except for the needy indivisuals who demand, "Sources Needed!", unless they are writing a book, or something!I agree, it's the attitude behind it. Requesting a source for one's own personal research/enjoyment of transit history and operations is one thing - finding and reading the original articles, entries, in transit publications etc. from 50-70 plus years ago is educational and fascinating. Requesting sources with what sounds like a "doubting Thomas" attitude as you said, is not a good attitude to take towards others' efforts at honestly and responsibly posting historical and operational detail and content here. And between eventful NY Div meetings, and many personal conversations over the years, it is appropriately understandable that someone might not have at their fingertips or remember a specific source - which may indeed be a conversation rather than an article or entry in for example PSC 1st Division Reports or another source. There is a whole side to NYC* transit history that is preservation and oral history - old timers who worked in transit, decades ago, passing on information verbally to a younger generation of enthusiasts for them to chronical and save - and this latter is not always the easiest,formally, to cite as a source, but no one should doubt what these individuals have to share. *and other cities' transit histories (for example, the late George Krambles in Chicago, as a counterpart to Don Harold as a keeper and preserver of transit history) |
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