I had an old back issue from the 40's re a cab ride on the Broadway from CHI to Fort Wayne and lost it. Are back issues from this era still available?
LAWRENCE SMITH I had an old back issue from the 40's re a cab ride on the Broadway from CHI to Fort Wayne and lost it. Are back issues from this era still available?
Johnny
Kalbach put out a DVD with all issues from number 1 to something like 2010. It's not paper, but you can still read it.
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Good luck. On line auctions, like E-bay. Antique stores. Train shows. Hobby shops that deal with consignment sales. (I bought quite a few issues of Railroad Magazine from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, not all consecutive issues, at a hobby shop.) At the stores and shows, dealers who may not have the issue you're looking for may no another dealer who might.
In those old Railroad Magazines I had a June 1942 issue. There was a train order situation puzzle, with the answer being in the July 1942 issue. Of course, that next issue wasn't in those I bought. Not even available at the hobby shop. (I think I was the only one buying them. It took a while, but I finally got all that were available.) It took a few years of just looking, but I finally found that issue. So it can be done.
Jeff
This one?
- PDN.
Paul_D_North_Jr This one? Christmas Eve on the Broadway Limited by Rung, A. M., Jr. from Trains December 1948 p. 27 Broadway christmas Limited prr - PDN.
While that is an excellent article, I'm fairly sure it is not the one the original poster was thinking of. The article you submit was not a cab ride, covered the train's trip from Chicago to Philadelphia, and makes only a passing memory of Ft. Wayne.
Other articles in the issue you mention, prtikcularly the Lowey and the Fairbanks Morse articles were very good reading. Thanks!
FWIW, I do seem to recall that there was an article in a vintage 2002-2007 issue of either Trains or Classic Trains magazine that recounted a late 1940's era cab ride in just such a train. Could this possibly be what you are thinking of?
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