Title: The Railroad Trainman
Bound Volume 61 No. 1-12, January – December 1944

Classification: Magazines Technology Transportation Railroad

Publication Information: Published monthly at Mount Morris, Il. By the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

Additional Information: Pages are numbered consecutively in these issues and total number of numbered pages is 465 plus there are some unnumbered pages at the back of the last issue. Illustrated. Has advertising and some of the ads are: Carhart; Union Pacific Present “Your America”; Pennsylvania Railroad; Lee Overalls; War Bonds; and more.

Summary: A sampling of some of the articles are:
• Wage Settlement
• The Case Against the Transportation Association of America Part I & II
• Launching of U.S.S. Patrick H. Morrissey
• An Interview With a Lady Trainman by Sister Edith M. Feich
• Caboose Hops (jokes and in multiple issues)
• Supreme Sacrifice (in couple issues, obituaries)
• Misleaders of Railroad Labor
• Abraham Lincoln The Man of Sorrow by Peter Witt
• Texas Jount Political Action
• Win-he-War membership Drive
• Roosevelt’s Spirit Hailed by David Lawrence
• Railway Unit Keeps Them Rolling on Fifth Army Front in Italy
• The Pied Piper of One-Track Gulch by Francis Lynde
• Railroad Manpower Recruiting Campaign
• “G I Joes.....and Citizen Joes” by Sarg. W.P. Nutter
• San Francisco Yardmen and Switchtenders
• Railway Operators School
• How the Soviet Railway Workers’ Union is Organized by S. Shcheglov
• Doghouses and Master Bedrooms
• Fraternalism Bulwark of America by Harold Allen
• Lodge 555 Celebrates “Old-Timers” Day
• Purple Heart and D.F.C. Awarded John H. Price, Jr.
• Sixty Year Member, John Nichols, Honored
• Seven Sons In Service, Potts Family
• Army Tells Troops of US Production record
• Fascist “Mothers” Mobilize for Peace With Hilter and War With The Soviet Union by Lewis Booth
• The Story of the Kenny Method by Basil O’Connor
• Unite Against VD by Walter Clarke, MD
• The 1944 Political Conventions
• Bill Smith, Average Man, “Saved” From New Deal by Big-Hearted Railroad by Lewis Booth
• Army Railroaders Battle Klondike’s Ice to Keep “Toughest” Rail Line Open by Liet. Col. H.C. Baughn
• Vacations With Pay Awarded Engineers and Trainmen
• B.R.T. Pioneers
• Commander Wassell Addresses Sante Fe Employes
• Campaign Issues of 1944
• Air Brake Observes 75th Anniversary
• US Military Railways in Europe Haul 10,000 Tons Daily
• SE Field Supervisors’ Victory Banquet, John Marshall Hotel, Richmond, VA, Oct. 10, 1944
• And many more articles

Condition: Bound hard cover volume, Ex-Lib-usual stamps/marks, covers show slight soiling and a little wear; book plate and label inside front cover; issues have original covers on them; text is sound, few small soiled spots, at one time some of the issues where bent in half (possibly during mail delivery) but the folds are getting pressed out with time, hint of light age discoloring, some bent corner tips but overall a good plus volume.

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