Your bid is for the May 1947 issue of RAILROAD MAGAZINE, which is Volume 42, Number 4, of the series begun in December 1929, continuing until January 1979, and 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 16.5 by 23.3 cm and contains 148 pages with Henry B. Comstock as Editor. The cover painting is called Highballing the Grain by Frederick Blakeslee. LAKE SUPERIOR TO PUGET SOUND by E.S. Dellinger is the Northern Pacific Railway story told over 32 pages, including 16 photos, a large map and numerous drawings. This popular and professional writer does this popular and professional railway the justice it deserves. The illustrations are extremely well chosen. Let Railroad's most popular and polished and prolific author tell you the way it was. LAST OF THE TWO-FOOTERS by Robert E. Murray is the Edaville Railroad story covering 9 pages and including 6 good photos. The Locomotive of the month is the C&O 4-6-4 No.490 shown on 3 pages with 2 photos, a scale drawings and specs. CANADA'S SHORTEST COMMON CARRIER is 2 pages and 6 photos devoted to the Mattagami Railroad. TEST RUN by R.V. Nixon details on 5 pages the first EMD diesel-electrics slated to replace steam with the introduction of the new North Coast Limited on Northern Pacific. 8 photos take you along with the author from St. Paul to the Pacific with this fine real-time reporting. LOCOMOTIVES OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC fill 6 pages with details and 10 photos. TRUE TALES are DOUBLE TRACK DEBUT by C.H. Clevenger as he tells over 3 pages about being assigned to Cajon as a young Santa Fe brass pounder and learning the hard way that trains run to the left thru Cajon Pass. PREACHING HOGGER by Herbert G. Monroe tells about the Southern Railway's Samuel Taylor Watkins, who died on duty at age 65 when his locomotive struck a broken rail at Tarsus, Alabama, on 19 December 1921, while hauling the Kansas City Special. This article runs to 5 pages and includes 3 photos. ROUNDHOUSE RATS (Part 1) by Gilbert A. Lathrop takes us to the Denver & Rio Grande roundhouse in Gunnison, Colorado, and all the rumors that runner Lewis heard about his son's crimes while he was away. A few were true. Sort it all out on 9 illustrated pages.  TENDERFOOT BOOMER by Charles E. Foster is very amusing and lite reading as he tells of being a young man in the still wild west and not at all interested in settling down and working for a living. This fine piece covers 9 pages and ends with a photo of the writer. FICTION is THE MAKING OF A HAND by Alvin C. Scism on 7 pages. Short Hauls and Departments number 7 and will keep you busy for quite some time. LIGHT OF THE LANTERN devotes 5 pages to flue removal and inspection with appropriate and necessary drawings included. ON THE SPOT is spread over some 17 pages and includes some really nifty photos this month. This magazine is in excellent, museum-quality 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 while trying to keep things simple. 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 eBay provides a packing slip. Thank you for reading. Alden Dreyer, 91 Reynolds Road, Shelburne MA 01370-9649. Copyright by AHD May 2024.

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