The Railroad & Current Mechanics September 1913 Volume 21 Number 4 A 165,000 Pound Loco Hung Up For Repairs.

This issue is packed with a complete novel ("The Fight for the Pass" by W. G. Seaver), short stories, railroad related articles, poetry, and miscellany. Includes articles on dog sleuths of the rails, end of steel villages, old engine styles that have come back, American railroaders working in South and Central America, how cipher codes are made, brief biographies of superintendents of motive power, article on advances in current mechanics, No. 64 in Observations of a Country Station-Agent, a Honk and Horace story, famous fast runs, True Story No. 78 (the Rome to Naples railroad), By the Light of the Lantern Q&As, how the telephone works, the birth of Chesapeake & Ohio, the new Munsey Trust Company, and much more. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. 224 pages plus 24 pages of vintage advertisements. 

Pages are clean and unmarked but yellowed with occasional stains. Spine is creased and taped with chipping at top and bottom. Cover shows shelf wear with rubbing. Ships promptly from Virginia (always in a box) with free tracking. Inquiries welcome. (L82)