RAILROAD MAGAZINE,12/45:WESTERN & ATLANTIC;PANAMA RR;FIRING OVER SUPAI;KCM&O;OP!

Description

Your bid is for the December 1945 issue of RAILROAD MAGAZINE, which is Volume 39, Number 1, 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 cover painting by Frederick Blakeslee is called: Ice-Boaters Greet the Albany Express (New York Central, 1870). LESS THAN CARLOAD LOTS is a single page concerning Grand Central Terminal, new streamliners in the western USA and transporting Engs by air into Burma. STATE-OWNED RAILROAD by Herbert G. Monroe is subtitled: Western & Atlantic, Virtually Tax-Free, Operated by NC&StL, Is Modern Road Rich in Historic Lore. Well, there you have it. Except to add that this comprehensive article covers 37 pages and includes 6 drawings and 15 photographs. The 137 mile W&A ran between Atlanta, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was leased to The Dixie Line, aka the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway for the grand sum of ,000 a month. The W&A is world famous for sponsoring the Great Locomotive Chase, aka The Andrews Raid, a number of years ago. Take a cab ride with the writer, himself a Southern trainman, over the line for an intimate look at a famous road. Sally and I Amtraked to Atlanta and visited the Texas, shown below, in February 2006, and suggest you do the same and see it on display at the Atlanta History Center. SABOTAGE is Fiction by Fred Sloman on 5 pages, followed by more of the same in ROCKING CHAIR by John Paul Mills on 5 more illustrated pages. Light of the Lantern begins with DRAW GEARS on 4 well-illustrated pages followed by Information Booth on 4 more. The Locomotive of the Month: LIMA "LIBERATION" covers these 2-8-2's going to France on 2 pages. TRUE TALES OF THE RAILS begins with FIRING OVER SUPAI by Arthur B. Reardon as he tells about chasing a runaway on the Santa Fe down Supai Mountain in Arizona in 1900. And that's just one story in this exciting 6 page report. A RAMBLING OP by Harold L. Johnston begins in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on the Iowa Central in 1899, as our hero accepts a tower job at Monmouth and never covers it because...... More great railroad readin' here on 11 pages, including a fine photo of the writer as a lad. In 1922 he hired out on the Western Pacific and was still working there as he wrote this piece. BEFORE THE RAILROAD CAME by William R. Draper is the unusual story of this young land-promoter for the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient and the tale begins at Kansas City Union Depot on February 17, 1907. Read these six pages before you get a second mortgage to buy more Kansas City Southern stock. COAST TO COAST IN 90 MINUTES by Ralph Z. Kirkpatrick is also related to KCS as that road standard-gauged and now operates the Panama Railroad that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This piece covers 5 pages and includes 4 photos. ELECTRIC LINES, Conducted by Stephen D. Maguire, takes roll call of all existing electric roads in the USA organized by states over 5 pages. WHISTLE ON THE LEVEE is Rail Fiction by the master of same, E.S. Dellinger, on 19 pages. ON THE SPOT is spread over 18 pages with the usual banter, great photos and rail trivia and news. And more bits and pieces too numerous to list. This magazine is in excellent condition as these frail old pulps go. At this time RM was using very poorer quality paper due to wartime shortages and only one staple due to government regulations. Handle with care.
The spine is professionally protected against deterioration and contamination with Scotch No.845 Book Tape.
Your satisfaction guaranteed. Please see my other eBay auctions for more rare and scarce railroad paper. I provide personal service without silly eBay games like waiting for payment before shipping, mandated payment methods, clumsy communications and charging for return shipping. Please check my feedback and DSR's. Everything I sell is POSTPAID USA, so the winning bid is what you pay, plus eBay’s state tax if applicable, unless you want special services. I normally ship first day after auction ends IF I have a payment plan & a proper shipping address, or you are a recent previous buyer. Thank you for reading. Alden Dreyer, 91 Reynolds Road, Shelburne MA 01370-9649. Copyright by AHD July 2021.