TRAINS MAGAZINE,5/53:CINCINNATI;CSS&SB=SOUTH SHORE LINE;MONSON RR;POUGHKEEPSIE !

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Your bid is for the May 1953 issue of TRAINS Magazine, which is traveling under the very temporary title of TRAINS & TRAVEL in a failed advertising experiment to attract the general public. This is Volume 13, Number 7, and measures 20.9 by 28.6 cm and contains 68 pages. The cover photo shows two N&W J's in Cincinnati Union Terminal with the overnight Pocahontas in from Norfolk. In RNEC: Editor David P. Morgan discusses at length NYC's President William White's approach to psgr trains; a UP order adds to the dome cars in the West; and CPR is happy with trials of an RDC in Quebec. WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME is a great captioned photo of a steam engineman by DPM and Frank Clodfelter. Frank was a Southern Railway fireman. TEMPLE OF TRANSPORTATION is a photo story by Wallace B. Abbey of Cincinnati Union Terminal, spread over 6 pages and including 12 photos and a map. THE RAILROAD WITH THE ORANGE TRAINS by W. Donald Allison is TRAINS definitive piece on the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Which, no one would have guessed then, turned out to be North America's only surviving interurban. This article covers 6 pages and includes a map and 4 photos. Famous Steam Locomotives: 15 is about L&N's Berkshires with 2 photos. I FLEW ACROSS THE HUDSON ON A FREIGHT TRAIN! by Wallace W. Abbey is Notable feats of railroad engineering: 15 and 2 pages with 2 photos and concerns the NYNH&H's Poughkeepsie Bridge. Still there and now a fantastic New York State Park that counts its annual visitors by the hundreds of thousands. OLD 2 X 6 by Richard L. Andrews is a 3 page story of Maine's Monson Railroad. The two-foot slate hauler is long gone, but engines 3 & 4 are still operable, or nearly so, elsewhere to the best of my knowledge. 3 photos of operating days are included. PHOTO SECTION covers 19 pages. The centerfold Robert Hale photo of UP 4-8-4 No. 842 and helper at Cheyenne is worth whatever you pay for this magazine. Other photos feature China, the Skunk, Western Allegheny, CofG, a Niagara, a D&C Shay, San Pedro CA in 1905, and the Texas Special being washed by hand. IT'S DUNGAREES FOR THE DIESEL by David P. Morgan is TRAINS 5th Annual Motive Power Survey and this one covers 8 pages with 12 photos, several drawings and charts. Leave it to Morgan to tell it the way it was. RPO and the usual shorts finish this issue. Full-page ads by M&St.L, UNIT, ACF, EMD, UP, Motorola, F-M, AT&SF, C&O, CRI&P and Timken. This magazine is in excellent condition. The black cover on this edition likes to show every minor scratch and rub. The spine is professionally protected against deterioration and contamination with Scotch No.845 Book Tape.
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