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| Author: | Howard P. [ Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
Does anyone out there have an index or listing of the "Interesting Railfans" series that ran in the old Railroad Magazine, from about 1964 to at least the mid-1970s? I have inquired with one of the current "Railfan and Railroad" staffers, and they could not find anything. Thanks, Howard P. |
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| Author: | PMC [ Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
Howard P. wrote: Does anyone out there have an index or listing of the "Interesting Railfans" series that ran in the old Railroad Magazine, from about 1964 to at least the mid-1970s? I have inquired with one of the current "Railfan and Railroad" staffers, and they could not find anything. Thanks, Howard P. Are you looking for someone specific? |
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| Author: | rem1028 [ Fri Mar 14, 2025 12:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
I really enjoyed this series in the back issues I've found. Two particular favorites were Earle Gil of the Morris County Central and Kristoffer Miller of Pine Creek. The issue with Earle Gil had a great picture of MCC 4039 going over the Passaic River trestle. John |
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| Author: | PMC [ Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
Quite a few of the pre-1961 or so Railroad Magazine (and Railroad Man's magazine as it was called originally) issues are available online for free, but I haven't found any after that: https://readitfree.org/PU/RRS.htm https://archive.org/details/pub_railroad-magazine It was around 150 pages each in the early 1950's, though most of that was ads unrelated to railroads. |
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| Author: | K.R. Bell [ Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
The Stephans folks produced an index to Railroad Magazine in the mid-1980s which i have in my personal library that indexes all of the "Interesting Railfans" articles and the issues in which they appeared. Send me a PM and I can look up the ones you are inquiring about. The Railroad Museum of PA Library has a nearly complete run of Railroad Magazine if anybody wishes to track down an old issue for reference. K.R. Bell |
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| Author: | Becky Morgan [ Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
Thank you so much for this link. If you’ve never read the stories, they’re…something else (definitely not fot the easily offended, product of their times, rich on the railroading and plots and kinda lumpy in the character development.) It’s also fun to look through the trade sections and the pen pals wanted. About ten years back an elder mentioned contacting someone who became a pen pals. They still were in extreme old ago. |
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| Author: | PMC [ Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
Becky Morgan wrote: Thank you so much for this link. If you’ve never read the stories, they’re…something else (definitely not fot the easily offended, product of their times, rich on the railroading and plots and kinda lumpy in the character development.) It’s also fun to look through the trade sections and the pen pals wanted. About ten years back an elder mentioned contacting someone who became a pen pals. They still were in extreme old ago. My understanding is that Railroad was a magazine for railroaders, not railfans, and like everyone they didn't necessarily want to talk or read about work all the time. The lingerie ads and so forth can be explained that way, and I understand that later Railroad had photos of female models next to locomotives. That makes sense from a marketing perspective, I recall what sort of "literature" railroaders liked to read in the late 1970s when I was a young teenager, they shared it with me sometimes, lots of photos of models, lets put it that way. |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Tue Mar 18, 2025 1:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
Thanks to Kurt Bell for coming up with the information needed! Howard P. |
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| Author: | ted66 [ Sat Apr 05, 2025 11:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
I used to have an article about Alice Ramsdall; who was one of the few female railfans. She was the owner of the WW&F #9 ex Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes #6. And some other cars that eventually went up to Alna, Maine. sorry but I forget the date of the issue. Ted Miles, WW&F Member Build 11 contributor |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Sun Apr 06, 2025 12:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Railroad Magazine"s "Interesting Railfans" series |
ted66 wrote: I used to have an article about Alice Ramsdall; who was one of the few female railfans. She was the owner of the WW&F #9 ex Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes #6. You MIGHT be thinking of August 1983 Trains, not Railroad? Not so much on Alice, but the guys who got permission to get #9/#6 out of the barn for photos? |
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