RAILROAD MAGAZINE,1/51:MCKEEN MOTORCARS;CLINCHFIELD ENGS;INDIA;STEAM DYNASTY;CPR

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Your bid is for the January 1951 issue of RAILROAD MAGAZINE, which is Volume 53, Number 4, published by Popular Publications of Kokomo, Indiana, and with editorial offices at 205 East 42nd Street in New York City. This digest-sized issue measures 16.7 by 23.7 cm and contains 148 pages with Henry B. Comstock as Editor. The cover painting by Herb Mott is called: "Unscheduled Stop". This issue begins with a Short Haul: TRAIN ON THE HIGHWAY by W.J. Granberg which tells how the Great Northern moved 61 box cars via highway in eastern Washington after cloudbursts washed out 9 bridges on the Mansfield and Douglas branches in wheat country. The article would fill 2 pages and includes 2 photos. The cars were moved on a trailer supplied with a length of track. The next Short Haul is ROCHESTER VIGNETTE which is a page by C.F. Donaldson, Jr. concerning Rochester, New York. BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO SOON by William M. Schopp tells the McKeen motor car story and refers to William Riley McKeen. The author claims that if gasoline engines of McKeen's time had matched his carbody design excellence, Budd's development of the RDC would have gone virtually unnoticed. Anyway, this definitive article on the McKeen cars covers 14 pages and includes 10 photos and an interior floor plan drawing. INDIA'S IRON PIKES by Allan D. Krieg brings you up to speed on where the railways of India were a six decades ago. This 21 page work includes some 18 photos and don't be misled: India is now a modern railway nation and more advanced in many ways than the United States. In fact, U.S. freight carbuilders are locating factories there. THE STEAM DYNASTY by Paul T. Warner looks at 110 Years of Locomotive Development over 16 pages with this installment going from 1831 until 1900. The article is well constructed and includes 18 illustrations of various locomotives, some common, some not. Light of the Lantern begins with a 4 page lecture on THE DISC BRAKE that includes a photo and 6 drawings. TEAMWORK by Charles E. Smith is a TRUE TALE that tells of Lindale outside of Cleveland, Ohio, on the CCC&St.L, Big Four to you in the know, on an exceptionally frigid January 15, 1920, which shows that brotherhood scams go back a long ways. Read these 5 pages carefully. BURIED ALIVE by William T. Dunlap tells of John Collinwood and Bear Creek in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia and how he was deeply buried in a slide in the winter of 1909-10 while guarding a Canadian Pacific Railway snowshed. He survived being buried for 24 hours and was back on duty in a few days. I've been there, Bear Creek, that is, but it was in July ! Read this one on 3 pages and you'll know why you have to keep digging after all hope is gone. Electric Lines: PANTOGRAPHS DOWN by Harry H. Harrison is a 9 page article that doesn't say whether it is fact or fiction. You decide. FROM SCALE TO PROTOTYPE is a True Tale by Samuel E. Herrington, as told to William C. Kessel, and is an interesting story of a railfan and how he became a New York Central tower operator. It really is involved and intriguing and perhaps all too familiar to many of us with our own strange-but-true stories to tell. This one covers 10 pages and includes a photo of our young man at work reading Railroad Magazine. LOCOMOTIVES OF THE CAROLINA, CLINCHFIELD & OHIO RAILROAD are rostered over 2 pages and include 4 photos. One of the most efficient railways in the Americas, the Clinchfield owned some very fine steam locomotives. Fiction this month is OPEN KNUCKLE by Edmund A. Pugsley spread over a dozen pages. On the Spot is found on an additional 15 pages, with all the usual news, trivia and rare photos. And much more. This magazine is in excellent condition as these old semi-pulps go. The spine is professionally protected against deterioration and contamination with Scotch No.845 Book Tape.
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