RAILROAD MAGAZINE,5/46:SOUTHERN'S MURPHY BRANCH;SOVIET UNION;LIRR No.1;SF 1906 !

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Your bid is for the May 1946 issue of RAILROAD MAGAZINE, which is Volume 39, Number 6, 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 16.7 by 23.6 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 titled: Helpers in the Haze (Murphy Branch, Southern Ry.) HORSE SAVED BY "BIG HOOK" is a single page enchanting Short Haul about the day the OR&N Fast Mail was delayed for 4 hours west of Meecham, Oregon, while a trapped mare and her colt were rescued from a 75 foot high trestle by the big machine. SKYLINE DISPATCHER by Herbert G. Monroe, Ex-trainman, Southern Railway, is 24 profusely illustrated pages about ex-DS George Washington Sandlin, the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway, and tales of its history and the folks that worked it. How did George get a regular operator's job at age 13? How did he work two full time jobs for 3 years at Old Fort without the rail brass catching on? Why did he leave the Murphy Branch? Why did Alden get the chills reading parts of this piece? Great railroad reading here for the pre-teenager, or the old-timer. My only complaint is the article contains 19 illustrations, including several full-page photos, but no map. BIGGEST RAIL SYSTEM by William L. Rhode covers the Soviet Union over 16 pages that include 20 photographs. Read this before you go. SPECIAL CAR by Raymond Hull, Former Pullman Conductor, is Fiction on 16 illustrated pages. VIEWS AND NEWS is 5 captioned photos on 2 pages. Light of the Lantern begins with DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCOMOTIVE GRATE on 5 pages, complete with multiple drawings, and then it is on to Information Booth on 4 more. The Locomotive of the Month: GREAT NORTHERN 4-8-8-4. No, not a Big Boy, but an electric built by GE in 1946. There were two, each weighing 720,000 pounds and producing 5,000 HP. A TEXAS TYPE for the TONNAGE TYCOON by the Nut-Splitter covers the PRR J-1a for the modeler on 3 pages. TRUE TALES of the RAILS begins with TWO BOOMERS by James T. Hoell as he tells how the 1906 San Francisco quake attracted lightning slingers looking to rubber neck at one of the world's greatest catastrophes, while seeking employment that was in great demand on the Southern Pacific. These 7 pages are not only good U.S. and SP and railroad history, they make fascinating reading for the student of telegraphy. Duplexes, quadruplexes, ink reports, repeater sets, overage sheets, all will make you ready for a hot relay or OS job! THREE TIMES AND SAFE by H.E. Webster tells about running the Empire Builder in 1942 for the Great Northern between Spokane and Troy, Montana. That's the start, and three disasters is the number to watch out for on these 5 pages of exciting rail reading. HOLDUP by Richard A. King goes back to 08 October 1897 on the Atlantic & Pacific at Grants, New Mexico, where Henry Abel was firing when several shots..... Black Jack Ketchum at work. ON THE SPOT fills 18 pages with reader comments, trivia, news and photos that are usually not found elsewhere --- ever. The Long Island's NUMBER 1 TRAINMAN tells of Frank Erthal who hired out on the LIRR as a freight brakeman in 1897 at a month. This 3 page illustrated story is charming. Electric Lines covers the CHAUTAUGUA LAKE ROUTE over 6 pages, including a rare double-decker open car shown at Celeron Park, New York. The line is officially the 32 mile Jamestown, Westfield & Northwestern operating in the resort region of southwestern New York State. Carbarn Comment follows on 3 pages. OLD DEPENDABLE by William J. Parry, Locomotive Engineer, Canadian National, is Fiction over 11 pages. New Railbooks reviews Headlights and Markers by Frank Donovan and Rights of Trains by Peter Josserand. Photos of authors are quite interesting: Henry, Tyler, Bedwell, Josserand. And there is much more in this fat little book. This magazine is in excellent condition as these old pulps go.
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 September 2021.