Your bid is for
the August 1944 issue of RAILROAD MAGAZINE, which is Volume 36, Number 3, and
published monthly by Popular Publications of 2256 Grove Street in Chicago, with
all business contact being made at 205 East 42nd Street in New York City. This
digest-sized issue measures 16.6 by 23.4 cm and contains 148 pages with Henry
B. Comstock as Editor and Freeman H. Hubbard as Research Editor. The front
cover painting by Emmett Watson is titled: Signal Maintainer (PRR). Less Than
Carload Lots is a Short Haul on a single page with several human-interest
stories. MISSISSIPPI DELTA ROAD by Stuart Covington is the Columbus &
Greenville story told in immense detail over 18 pages. This definitive work
begins with telling of the great flood of 21 April 1927 that put the C&G
out of business for three months, and then continues with more stories,
numbers, a system map, early history, a drawing and 22 photos. THE MAN UP AHEAD
is a Novelette by New York Central Conductor, John Johns, filling 22 pages.
SENIORITY BEGINS AT FORTY by MKT Conductor, Clifford Funkhouser, looks back
over the years and assesses the current situation and tells you candidly on 5
pages why Funk is now a home guard. "......the old boomer trail ain't what
she used to be." Light of the Lantern teaches you about Hooking Her Up on
5 illustrated pages. This is modern information dealing with valve pilots and
back pressure gauges and such. How Well Do You Know the Book? by Peter
Josserand is your train order quiz for this month. For me, this one was very easy.
Which is not usually the case with me and Josserand. The Information Booth continues
and has the story of the North Pacific Coast cab-forward built in Sausalito in
1901, which led to bigger and better things. A MATTER OF TECHNIQUE is Fiction
by CN Runner, P.M. Adams, on 4 pages. The Locomotive of the Month is the
Chesapeake & Ohio K-4 Berkshire Type shown and described on 2 pages. True
Tales of the Rails begins with PREMONITIONS by Herbert G. Monroe and shows and
tells of an engineman named Black Cat, and about the author's brother-in-law,
who died in a cornfield meet and apparently knew beforehand that his time had
come. This is spooky Southern Railway reading over 7 pages, including 7 photos.
GREEN LIGHTS REPLACE WHITE by Haywire Mac tells on 2 pages why the Pennsylvania
RR went from white to green. THREE-WAY FLAGGING by ATSF Engineman, R.P.
Middlebrook explains, over 3 pages, how his runner got the conductor out
flagging, and jogging, on a parallel highway between Oceanside and Fallbrook
Junction. RAILS THROUGH SLIPPER SWAMP by Arthur B. Clark is a Georgia Southern
& Florida Railway story that goes back to the summer of 1891 and a poor
dark-skinned woman whose crutch the crew thot was a gun. Fine reading on 5
pages, including a large drawing and a photo of the writer. Electric Lines
conducted by Steve Maguire starts off with 5 pages on BIRNEY CARS, including
numerous photos and drawings. FORTY TWO YEARS A TOWERMAN by Harry F. Thomas
tells of his life on the New Haven Railroad over 14 pages, including a large
drawing and 5 photos, 2 of which show nasty wrecks. Harry started in at
Stonington Junction on the night trick at $1.70 a tour, but that wasn't enough,
so he went brakin'. The link & pin got him and he went back to the towers,
eventually back to Stonington, and remained there until the Hurricane of 21
September 1938 ended his 52-year railroad career. Great historical reading
whether or not you live in New England. ON THE SPOT then fills 19 pages with
rare photos, trivia, news and good personal stories. One of the best sources of
good authentic railroad history. Model Railroading builds a Pennsy K-5 Pacific
over 7 pages. And much more in this packed little book. This magazine is in
excellent, museum-quality condition as these old pulps go. The spine is
professionally protected against deterioration and contamination with Scotch
No.845 Book Tape. Your
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