Trains Magazine,7/51:Southern's Rat Hole;Prr T-1;Detroit & Mackinac;Up Fireman !
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TRAINS MAGAZINE,7/51:SOUTHERN'S RAT HOLE;PRR T-1;DETROIT & MACKINAC;UP FIREMAN !. The cover photo by Walter H. Thrall Jr. is Southern Pacific's narrow-gauge line on a caboose hop between Keeler and Owenyo, California. PRR to install ATC. 8 photos will get you up to speed on the rat hole that was. Your bid is for the July 1951 issue of TRAINS Magazine, which is Volume 11, Number 9. This issue measures 20.9 by 28.5 cm and contains 60 pages with Willard V. Anderson as Editor. The cover photo by Walter H. Thrall Jr. is Southern Pacific's narrow-gauge line on a caboose hop between Keeler and Owenyo, California. In RN&EC: GN re-equips the Builder; of the top ten passenger carriers in 1950, six were railroads... American, United, Eastern and TWA were the others. PRR to install ATC. THE OLD RAT HOLE by David H. Noble and Doyle B. Inman is a 4-page photo story on the Southern's Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, which was formerly known as the Cincinnati Southern. 8 photos will get you up to speed on the rat hole that was. SHOOTING STARS ON THE SIERRA by Glenn Beier is a 2-page feature on cowboy movie-making on the Sierra RR including 3 photos by the author. OPERATION STREAMLINER by Walter H. Thrall Jr. is an 8-page feature article of the type that I love the most: this is what I did and how and why I did it. In this case, Thrall is a Union Pacific fireman on the City of Los Angeles from LA to Las Vegas. Really a great piece of work, I mean the writing, not the firing, and accompanied by 8 photos, and a map that you'll need now that you can't get there from there anymore (but soon! .. maybe?). METAMORPHISIS OF THE T-1 by Bert Pennypacker explains on 2 pages with 5 photos why the PRR T-l's are similar, but not identical. GN has a great full-color centerfold ad. PHOTO SECTION covers 8 pages with glory day railroading. THEY SHED NO TEARS by Roob M. Allie explains over 6 pages why "Nobody felt bad when the Detroit & Mackinac ran its last passenger train." This is TRAINS' definitive piece on this little Detroit & Mackinac line, that ran from Bay City to Cheboygan, Michigan, basically along Lake Huron, with 5 photos and a fine George A. Gloff map. U.S. LOCOMOTIVES ACROSS THE SEA are 4 captioned photos on a single page from the scrapbook of Geoffrey H. Bell. EIGHT-WHEEL STANDARD LOCOMOTIVES is a 2-page Roger's catalog reprint. Amateurs call them the American type, which upsets my British friends. And then all the regular features, such as Railway post office, and those great period ads from Southern, Unit Truck, M&StL, EMD, GN as mentioned, F-M, 6 New England Roads and N&W. This magazine is in excellent, museum-quality condition. The spine is professionally protected against deterioration and contamination with Scotch No.845 Book Tape. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Please see my other eBay auctions for more rare and scarce railroad paper. I provide personal service while trying to keep things simple. Please check my feedback and DSR's. Everything I sell is POSTPAID USA, so the winning bid is what you pay, plus eBay’s state tax if applicable, unless you want special services. I normally ship the first day after the auction ends IF eBay provides a packing slip. Thank you for reading. Alden Dreyer, 91 Reynolds Road, Shelburne MA 01370-9649. Copyright by AHD May 2026.
