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The Trackside Guides are an excellent idea, and the Cincinnati one is extremely interesting and well-researched. A few suggestions: 1. Where a feature is mentioned, make sure that it's marked on the map(s). For instance, the Cincinnati Southern, the Miami & Erie Canal and the never-completed subway are mentioned in the introduction, but I couldn't see them identified on the maps (unless the Tunnel marked in Downtown is the subway). 2. Mark the routes of passenger trains, with their schedules - it would be interesting to know at what times the Cardinal is scheduled to call at CUT. 3. Comparing the maps with those in Mike Walker's Railroad Atlas Great Lakes East, it looks as if not all abandoned lines are marked, and there are inconsistencies between maps - for instance, the C&O Cheviot Hill Line is marked on p3, but not on pp8/9. 4. How about an indication of where streetcars and interurbans (assuming that Cincinnati had them) ran? 5. Expand the location map inset on p3 so that it indicates where the lines go to: references to lines ending up at Chattanooga, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne etc are hard to place for those of us who are unfamiliar with the area. I look forward to others in the series: how about Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington DC, Kansas City? I hope these comments help. Mike M - from New Zealand, where the entire country's railroading could just about fit into one Trackside Guide!
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