Description
Contents: Rare Pleasures (Steinheimer night photography), Sierra Vintage Steam (Guy Dunscomb and Al Rose photograph a railfan favorite, “The Sierra Today”), Toy Train Tracks Through The Tulips (Nostalgia-evoking railroading in your own back yard), Link’s Bright, Creative Night Views (Classic photographs of the final days of mainline steam railroading), Through Thick And Thin (Life on a Santa Fe steel bridge gang), Anthracite Country 2-10-2 (A look at one of Lehigh Valley’s class R.I. locomotives), George C. Corey’s Boston & Maine (He excels in a clean, straightforward portrayal of the railroad), Gateway To A Continent (Advertising Grand Central Terminal), 1947 and Powell Street Cable Cars (Friedel Klussmann fights to save San Francisco’s cable cars. “What Makes Cable Cars Move”) Departments – Operator’s Desk (A tribute to the N & W), Letters to the Editor (An artist and other readers respond), Readers Recall (Reading memories, a yard clerk’s confession, and a fireman’s failures), Time-Tables: 1940 (Erie – first in freight), Classic Railroad Stories (Selected by James D. Porterfield, “Circumstantial Evidence” by Walt Wyre), Unforgettable Railroad Days (A trip to hell and back in a way car – partly), Railroad Collectibles (Matchbooks: Socializing in the Lounge Car), Vintage Marketplace (Books about locomotives and rolling stock), Swap Meet (Classified advertisers list bargains), Terminal Ad (The 20th Century Limited ran sure as sundown)
Cover: September / October
Condition: Very Good