RAILROAD MAGAZINE,11/31:SANDY RIVER & RANGELEY LAKES RR;NP RUNAWAYS;SP BRIGANDS!

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Your bid is for the November 1931 issue of RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE, STORIES of Adventures and Real Life, published by the Frank A. Munsey Company of New York City. This digest-sized publication measures 17.3 by 24.8 cm, contains some 164 pages, plus the wraps. Published since 1906, this is Volume 6, Number 4, in the series that began with December 1929. The cover on this issue is rather famous and you may see it on the wall in fine restaurants, such as UNION STATION in Northampton, Massachusetts, once was, because someone actually spent three to five cents to get a nice print without the lettering. Railroad Magazine actually reproduced it again many years later as I recall just in case it looks familiar. ALL-RAILROAD FICTION includes ROUNDHOUSE MURDER, part 1 of 3, by master storyteller Don Waters, covers 19 illustrated pages; THANKSGIVING ORDERS by Griff Crawford, on 7 pages, including 3 fine drawings; SCRAP HEAP by Wilson Wells, on 11 pages with 2 drawings; THE UNWORTHY BROTHER by L. Keith Davis, on 8 pages with 3 drawings; RATTLETRAP TRANSIT by Emmet F. Harte, with Hank & Horace on 9 pages and ROAD TO GLORY, part 2 of 2, by another master of the railroad world written word, the New York Central conductor with the funny name, John Johns, on 22 pages, with 4 drawings. ILLUSTRATED FEATURES AND TRUE TALES include BRIGANDS OF THE OLD "ESPEE" by James W. Davis, which devotes 10 well-illustrated pages to the story of Chris Evans and the Sontag Brothers. Read this before you take up train robbery on former Southern Pacific Lines. 9 FOR ONE TURKEY by J. C. Williams, Jr. is told on one page and reminds me of a tale from Springfield, Massachusetts, whereas someone deliberately opened the door on the south side of a carload of frozen turkeys in a transfer drag from West Springfield to the B&M so that a bunch would fall out when they went around the extremely sharp curve on the north leg of the wye. It seemed to be a regular thing about the middle of every November .... THE TORRENT OF TERROR by R.O. Seamon on 5 pages is supposed to be a true story, but lacks details, so how do you tell and does it really matter anyway? Other TRUE TALES OF THE RAILS stories include A CAR TOAD'S APOLOGY by Si Stoddard; SEALED, LOCKED AND CLEATED by W.G. Case; THROUGH THE REBEL LINES by Ricardo P. Diaz; SALTY SPUDS by Harold A. Sabrowsky; GHOST IN THE TOWER by Frederick M. Westcott at Bowerston, Ohio, on the PRR Lines West; and THE LUCKIEST WRECK by "Highball John" Burns. SANDY RIVER BLUES by Freeman H. Hubbard, the magazine's managing editor, devotes 7 pages, including 6 photos, to the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad. North America's longest two-foot gauge line is in deep financial trouble and this definitive, real-time work by one of railroading's best investigative reporters of the era will set you straight. RIDERLESS RUNAWAYS by H.L. Childs is a Northern Pacific story on 5 illustrated pages. 130 1/2 MILES AN HOUR by Edward Francis tells us that in 1903 electric traction could do then what it is doing regularly in 2012. GERMANY'S FINEST TRAIN by Otto Kuhler is one page devoted to the Rheingold Express. And then there are the SIX POPULAR DEPARTMENTS. By The Light of the Lantern dwells into many subjects such as the latest steam power on the B&O, B&M and Rutland, Mauch Chunk Switch-Backs, Australia's most powerful locomotive, the ball signal at Strong, Maine, the SP bridge at Del Rio and the Southern's Ponce de Leon. You'll find something to fascinate! This magazine is in very good, or better, condition as these old pulps go. The crossword puzzle is still blank. The original cover has a thumb sized section missing, so a photocopied cover is neatly attached using Scotch No.845 Book Tape. The spine is missing the date and the rear cover is quite worn.
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