Railroad Magazine, November 1942

There's sort of an odd ad on the inside of the front cover. It's for Listerine, which isn't that odd, but it's for using Listerine with a person's shampoo to “guard against infectious type of dandruff.” Men are supposed to “douse full strength Listerine on the scalp morning and night,” and Women are instructed to “part the hair at various places, and apply Listerine Antiseptic.”

1. Pacific Express Messenger: An Old-timer recalls early days on the crooked Oregon-Washington road.
2. Wartime Railroading: two pages of photographs.
3. Wheeling the Sugar Dodgers: American railroads haul more cane than cotton, and the Sugar Beet has build at least one carrier.
4. Model Railroading: Freight cars of the cap-stack era.
5. Branch-line Operator: To Matt Jacobs the isolated mountain depot was more than home, it was almost life itself.
6. Light of the Lantern: How the Airbrake Works.
7. True Tales of the Rails: Freight Racketeers.
8. Switch-Stand Meet.
9. Electric Lines.
10. Electric Rail Terms.
11. A One-Man Railroad.
12. Who's Who in the Crew.
13. Along the Iron Pike: two pages of instructional illustrations.
14. Night Yardmaster: Lanky Hanks didn't like being a dinger-not when he couldn't trust his ace carhand.
15. On the Spot.
16. November in Rail History: two pages of illustrations.
17. Locomotives of Four California Lines.
18. Railroad Camera Club.

A very strange looking train wreck.

Another old locomotive.



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