Vintage Rails issue # 8 Summer 1997 (magazine)

Rare Pleasures
  • A look at mailbags, train orders, and cabooses.
Railroads in the Crucible of War
  • The railroad industry shouldered a burden and carried it with success.
Railroad Advertising Artist
  • Sam Hyde Harris's posters show SP's wartime accomplishments.
Horace Bristol
  • Photographer shows railroad workers and hand signals.
Growing Up on the Clinchfield
  • Warmheartedness was a company characteristic.
Samuel Insull's Chicago Interurbans
  • Part two covers the South Shore Line and Chicago, Aurora & Elgin.
War Comes to Lionelville
  • Toy train manufacturers turns to defense production in two wars.
Classic Railroad Stories
  • Jack Clinton McLarn's "Wreck Call — Emergency!"


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