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Your bid is for the
February 1954 issue of TRAINS Magazine, which is Volume 14, Number 4. This
issue measures 21 by 28.6 cm, contains 68 pages and is the very LAST issue
produced under the very temporary experimental title of TRAINS & TRAVEL. In
RN&EC, Editor David P. Morgan attacks the ICC formula used to obtain psgr
deficits; CPR had the first dome car..... in 1902; Cleveland Union Terminal
cuts the power; and new box cars cost less than 15 cents a pound. PENNSY'S NEW
JUICE JACKS by Henry F. Dimmler tells us about the competing E2b's and E3b's
over 7 pages, including 8 photos. Who would have thot then that something
called ConRail would prefer to run diesels under energized wires? And that the
new fancy electrics would not replace GG-1's? DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT ISN'T THAT A
FLYING COW? by R.W.F. Schmidt is an airport manager's admittance of his love of
railroading. Three cartoons by H. Reid illustrate this piece spread over 5
pages. WALK RIGHT IN...... by Frank P.
Donovan, Jr. is the story of railroad vice-president and general manager, Harry
Congdon, of the Saint Paul Union Depot Company and the Minnesota Transfer
Railway. This 4 page article, by one of railroading's finest writers, follows
Congdon around on a typical day and 7 photos will help you decide whether you
want this job or not. PHOTO SECTION starts off its 17 pages with a Frisco meet
at Hoxie, Arkansas; a grand centerfold on the B&O roundhouse at Cumberland,
Maryland, way back when entitled SAND PATCH SOLDIERS; 2 fine winter photos of
Kiester, Minnesota; a wide-open photo of wide-open F's on the Rio Grande line
to Leadville at <10 MPH with 75 trailing loaded wagons; 336,250 pounds of UP
Tractive Effort hauling freight into Buford, Wyoming, .... backwards at 40 MPH;
Alhambra roundhouse in Los Angeles in steam and more. ARE YOU LISTENING, MR.
GORDON? is a 2 page piece by newspaper editor Bruce Hutchinson asking the
Canadian National President to keep a few proper whistle blowers on the
property. DESTINED TO DIE YOUNG by F.H. Howard is Famous Steam Locomotives
No.23 and is the 3 page story of Canadian Pacific's little Pacifics Nos.
1200-1301. A fine double-page builder's photo of the 1200 is included. IT'S NOT
JUST ANOTHER BRANCH by Wayne Leeman is the story of the Current River Railroad
which became a Frisco Branch of the same name running across southern Missouri
from Willow Springs to Chicopee. This fine 4 page work includes a small map and
7 photos, with one going back to 1903. RPO and the usual shorts finish this
issue. Full page ads this month by ALCO, AAR, F-M, EMD, Hyatt, ERIE, M&StL,
Timken and Magnus. This magazine is in excellent condition. 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
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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.
