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The total production of E3s, 4s, 5s, and 6s in that section is in error, all right. (If you study the photo caption to the left, you'll find another one, too.) So far, you're the 18th person to tell us about this since Saturday. A given issue of Trains has, we've calculated, over 30,000 simple facts. A large map on its own might contain 10,000 facts, if one considers that each feature on that map has an identification, color, size, units, font and spelling (if text), and sometimes more than a dozen independent spatial relationship facts. And, yes, getting any one of the 30,000 wrong will usually bring a small flood of letters questioning our competence, upbringing, morality, and mother's companionship habits. In the average issue, readers inform us of five to six true factual errors, and we independently find 10 to 20 more. Most of these are not of the magnitude that will lead to fundamental reader misapprehension; for those that do, we publish a correction. As far as I know, Trains is the only railroad magazine in the world to publish corrections every month. There are also grammatical and syntax errors; fortunately, our readers are more forgiving of those than at some of the publications with which I'm familiar. This is made worse because there are many viewpoints on what is "right" and what is "wrong." I've had some interesting letter exchanges about the arcana of grammar. Then there are the errors of conclusion, presumption, observation, and logic. These are almost always significant.
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