Re: C&S Rotary - just another Beebe Boo-Boo ...

hwcwsl Wrote:
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> Apparently, some people connect Lucius Beebee with
> accuracy.
>
> My late friend Ted Wurm, the railroad
> writer/historian,told me a story about Beebee
> about 20 years ago. Back in the late 1940s and
> early 1950s, Ted was a volunteer assistant to
> Graham Hardy, who published some of Beebee's
> smaller books about the Virginia & Truckee RR in
> western Nevada. ted was reviewing a draft of one
> of Beebee's books (he did not say which one) for
> Hardy when he spotted some errors in fact. He
> corrected them on the spot. A little later,
> Beebee was reviewing the draft that Ted had been
> working on and saw the corrections. They annoyed
> him and he changed the corrections back to what
> they were to start with. Beebee' told Ted, very
> strongly, "I don't want accuracy, I want
> ambience!"
>
> In short, Beebee was not interested in accuracy!
>
> In May 1949, Dad and I rode the now long gone
> Virginia & Truckee for 3 days. On the first day,
> which was an excursion, lunch was served by the
> railroad in its very large stone engine house and
> shops in Carson City, Nevada. After lunch, we
> went back out into the railroad yards because Dad
> had seen Lucius Beebee's private car the "Gold
> Coast" parked on a siding under a tree and he
> wanted to photograph it. So we walked that way.
> We soon saw Beebee to our right, also headed for
> the Gold Coast, and all of us got there at the
> same time. Dad asked Beebee to pose in front of
> the Gold Coast which Beebee did, for just one
> photo. I knew who he was because, at the age of
> 12, I already owned (as a gift) and had read
> Beebee's "Mixed Train Daily".

Best regards, Hart Corbett