1. Less Than Carload Lots.
2. Inspection Engines.
3. Rulebook's Last Trip.
4. Along the Iron Pike: Two pages of factual illustrations.
5. Pocahontas Division.
6. Light of the Lantern. (factual material)
7. Locomotive of the Month: Baldwin Road Diesel
8. True Tales of the Rails: I Was a Pullman Striker.
9. Electric Lines: What is an Interurban?
This article is important to me in that I've been trying to figure out something. Roadwork has been going on, with the city installing new gas lines, and this digging has uncovered rails. I have been trying to figure out whether the rails belonged to a railroad, as such, or some kind of trolley line. No one I talked to has been able yet to say for sure which, so I did some more research.
On the net, I found a map which showed “interurban” lines, and the location of one of them matched the place where the buried rails were turning up. This article does offer a definition of just what an “interurban” is.
“An interurban is a railroad operated by electricity which extends from one urban community to another. It generally passes along the streets of the towns it reaches, but outside of their limits it uses a private right-of-way operating at high speed, but making stops at road crossings and stations. Cars are heavier than those used in city service and usually operate in single units. Fares, wages and costs are generally lower than that of standard steam lines.”
“Usually we find that the interurban grew out of a local streetcar line which, in the normal process of growth, was extended from one city to another. This feature will distinguish an interurban from an electrified steam road, for most of the latter systems were formed years before local streetcar lines started runnings.”
10. The Showdown.
11.On the Spot
12. Railroad Camera Club.
This is an ad related to WWII. It shows an American soldier on the shoulders of a Japanese soldier. Oddly enough, the Japanese soldier is not drawn in the stereotypical fashion.
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