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An editor, SarekOfVulcan, who has engaged in a long history of contentious editing with/against me, has followed me to this article and removed mention of NRHP listing in the article. I don't welcome this.
There is however a wikipedia policy/guideline of BRD, which I am willing to follow if there is some legitimate point about this article. However, it is absurd and obtuse or worse to remove mention of the NRHP listing. If there is some other point that the editor wishes to make, please state it here. -- do ncr am 13:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't really like the coordinates given in the article -- they show up as the middle of the woods, and not on the trail as drawn by Google Maps. Can anyone confirm these, or give alternate coordinates for something recognizable, like the top of the Pisgah Plane? -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
a very interesting article, alas it needs paring and a serious editing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.92.135.36 ( talk) 03:51, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
An IP has performed major surgery on this article (see above). Apart from a couple of lost references, which I have restored, what I have looked at seems to be improvements. Additional eyes would not be a bad thing though.
They also moves two chunks of text to the talk page:I have places these below.
--cut text, pasted to top of talk page by IP--
The area had been given a rough survey by Josiah White and Hazard around 1815 when they initially contemplated leasing the rights of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company. Determining the river could be improved, the coal mined effectively, and they'd schemed out a means it could be shipped to the river, the two moved to obtain the rights, began soliciting investors, and lobbying the legislature for rights to improve the Lehigh River. Before spring of 1818, allowed construction of the Lehigh Canal as their rights were granted, the descending path of the 9 miles (14 km) route-to-be was surveyed by White and construction of mining facilities (1818-1819) and the modest beginning as a mule trail managed by Erskine Hazard as the two industry giants struggled to bring coal to energy-starved Philadelphia. In spring 1827, during a mere week—so well organized was their preparation, sleepers [a] and rails were laid down on this path, which was already graded mild enough that brakemen only had to check the trains' speed over the sometimes swooping descents and speed reducing ascents.
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</ref> and the Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill and Switchback Railroad or
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All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 08:23, 23 April 2017 (UTC).
Approaching the close of the 2nd decade of the 21st century, Wikipedia is still amateurish and unreliable as all get-out.
The 1st para. of this article says the RR "operated between 1828 and …"
Then follows a quote saying it "opened on Saturday, May 5th, 1827 …."
At the risk of being obvious, which is it?
Jimlue ( talk) 22:54, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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An editor, SarekOfVulcan, who has engaged in a long history of contentious editing with/against me, has followed me to this article and removed mention of NRHP listing in the article. I don't welcome this.
There is however a wikipedia policy/guideline of BRD, which I am willing to follow if there is some legitimate point about this article. However, it is absurd and obtuse or worse to remove mention of the NRHP listing. If there is some other point that the editor wishes to make, please state it here. -- do ncr am 13:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't really like the coordinates given in the article -- they show up as the middle of the woods, and not on the trail as drawn by Google Maps. Can anyone confirm these, or give alternate coordinates for something recognizable, like the top of the Pisgah Plane? -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
a very interesting article, alas it needs paring and a serious editing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.92.135.36 ( talk) 03:51, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
An IP has performed major surgery on this article (see above). Apart from a couple of lost references, which I have restored, what I have looked at seems to be improvements. Additional eyes would not be a bad thing though.
They also moves two chunks of text to the talk page:I have places these below.
--cut text, pasted to top of talk page by IP--
The area had been given a rough survey by Josiah White and Hazard around 1815 when they initially contemplated leasing the rights of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company. Determining the river could be improved, the coal mined effectively, and they'd schemed out a means it could be shipped to the river, the two moved to obtain the rights, began soliciting investors, and lobbying the legislature for rights to improve the Lehigh River. Before spring of 1818, allowed construction of the Lehigh Canal as their rights were granted, the descending path of the 9 miles (14 km) route-to-be was surveyed by White and construction of mining facilities (1818-1819) and the modest beginning as a mule trail managed by Erskine Hazard as the two industry giants struggled to bring coal to energy-starved Philadelphia. In spring 1827, during a mere week—so well organized was their preparation, sleepers [a] and rails were laid down on this path, which was already graded mild enough that brakemen only had to check the trains' speed over the sometimes swooping descents and speed reducing ascents.
-- part 2--
</ref> and the Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill and Switchback Railroad or
--Refs--
--ends--
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 08:23, 23 April 2017 (UTC).
Approaching the close of the 2nd decade of the 21st century, Wikipedia is still amateurish and unreliable as all get-out.
The 1st para. of this article says the RR "operated between 1828 and …"
Then follows a quote saying it "opened on Saturday, May 5th, 1827 …."
At the risk of being obvious, which is it?
Jimlue ( talk) 22:54, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the
help page).