Railroad Magazine, October 1941

1. The Boomer's Bag of Tricks: “No matter why he'd been fired or how often, he could get 'perfect' references.” There's an ad for Pepsi in this section, and, at that time, a bottle of Pepsi cost all of 5 cents. An ad for Gillette blades reveals that they cost four for only ten cents.
2. Trackage Rights: “Nearly seven percent of our rail mileage is shared by two or more roads.”
3. Railfan activities
4. Language of the Key: “Tobiah knew his Morse code, but not the language of the key.”
5. Locomotives of the Pennsylvania, part 4.
6. Light of the lantern: readers submit questions, and this part has the questions and answers.
7. True Tales of the Rails: Actual Happenings Told by Eye Witnesses.
8. Dining-car conductor.
9. Imperial Valley: “Ed Harriman and the Espee in a mighty struggle with California floods-historical novelist.”
10. Model Railroading: A Defense Industry in O-Gage
11. Alone the Iron Pike: illustrations
12. On the Spot: some editorial material, reader's comments.
13. Railroad Camera Club

A different looking locomotive.

I love this design for a locomotive. It's either still futuristic, or retro, but, either way, it's really a fantastic design.

A train locomotive wreck.

The back cover, an ad for Chesterfield cigarettes.

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