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THIS IS RAILROADING AND IS PUBLISHED QUARTLY BY STARRUCCA PUBLICATIONS. PUBLISHER WILLIAM S YOUNG. BASICLY THIS PUBLICATION IS A ONE MAN OPERATION AND IS PRODUCED WITH LOVE FOR THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. NUMBER 28, JUNE 1969
FRONT COVER: MOBILE & GULF RAILROAD MOGUL NO. 79, NOTHING HAS CHANGRD, NO TOURIST TRAIN, NO GAUDY PAINT JUST OLD #79. THS IS THE LAST UNALLOWED STEAM RAILROAD IN AMERICA IS NOW WORKING FOR CHARITY.
CONTENTS INCLUDE,
SHORT-LINE MAN. AS HARD AS THIS WORLD SITS ON ITS INDIVIDUAS, IT HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO STIFE THEM, BUT THEY ARE BECOMING HARDER TO FIND IN THE SHORT LINE RAILROAD BUSINESS. GEORGE ARTHUR CLARK, WHO DIED ON APRIL 7th IN THE OFFICE AT KENILWORTH, NEW JEREY, WHERE HE HAD WORKE FOR 37 TEARS AS SIMULTIAEOUSLEY– PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER, SECRETARY, AUDITIR AND FREIGHT MANAGER AT THE15 MILE RAHWAY VALLEY, WAS A SHORT LINE RAILROADER IN THE TADUTIN OF DAN THMAS OF CHEASAPEAKE WESTERN, JOHN SEXTON OF EUREKA, NEVADA, AND HARDSHELL HIGGINS OF THE MYTHICAL HAPPY VALLEY LINE. AFTER HIS FUNERAL TWO OF HIS FREINDS STOOD ON A SYREE CORNER FOR AN HOUR, REMEMBERRING WHAT THEY COULD OF HIM. THEY AGREED THAT ITWAS THE END OF AN ERA. FOUR PHOTOS.
NUMBER 28,
LAST OF THE LAST. ONLY IN ALABAMA IS THERE A STEAM POWERED COMMON CARRIER THAT OPERATES AS IT ALWAYS HAS. THREE WRITERS VIEW THE UNSPOILED MOBIE AND GULF RAILROAD. FOR REASONS ENOUGH THE THREE DIDDERNT IMPRESSIONS OF THE MOBILE AND ULF RAILROAD THAT ARE PRINED HERE ALL BEGAN IN THE EARLY MORNING AT HE BRWN WOOD PRESERVING DIVSION’S CREOSOTING PLANT AT BROWNSVILLE,ALABAMA. THE WORK STARTS PROMPTLY AT SEVIN WHEN THREE RAIL GOING MOTOR CRANES COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE PLANTS BOILER HOUSE AND SLOWLY MOVE DOWN THROH THE POLE YARD TOGETHER, LIKE THREE GEESE ON THE WAY TO A PUDDLE. CRANE NO.TWO IS YELLOW, CRANE NO. THREE IS GREEN AND CRANE NO. FOUR ALUMINUM; BUT LOCOMOTIVE NO. 97, WHICH IS TO FOUND ON THE NEAR SIDE OF THE BOILERHOUSE, IS SMALL, BLACK AND STAM. IT WAS NO.97 THAT PEOPLE CAME HUNDRED OF MILES TO LOOK AT, AND RAY BOBO, THE YOUNG SUPEINTENDANT AT BROWNSVILLE, IS ONY HALF JESTING WHEN HE SAYS THAT ALL THE TOURISTS, ALL THE UNINVITED VISITORS WANT TO SEE THE LAST PURE, UNSPOLIED ALL STEAM COMMON CARRIER IN AMERICA ARE GRTTING TO BE A BIT OF A BOTHER. IT WOULD BE EASY TO PROCURE A DIESEL AND DISCOURAGE VISITORS, BUT THE MOBILE & GULF TRIES TO BE HOSPITABLE , AND IT HAS BEEN PERFECTLY SATISFIED WITH NO. 97. TWELVE PHOTOS AND A LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER OF MOBILE AND GULF AND W. P. BROWN & SONS LUMBER COMPANY
FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CLINCHFIELD. HOW CAN A RAILROAD DRAW PUBLIC ATENTION AND MAKE MONEY ALL AT INCE. ASK THE CLINCHFIELS. LAST NOVEMBER ITS 1882 VINTAGE 4-6-0 NO.1 HAS HELPED TO BULD THE ARGUMANT THAT RAILROAS OUGHT TO MORE THAN TRADE ON ITS ERRITAGE. THET SCHEDULED 12 TRIPS ON A LINE THAT ITS SENIC BUT SHORT AND A LINE THAT SRVVES ONLY THREE CITIES OF ANY SIZE.SPARTENBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARION, NORTH CAROLINA. AT MARION IT BULT A WYE SO NO. 1 CAN TURN AFTER DESENDING THE BLUE RIDGE LOOPS. NINE PHOTOS
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ROCK ON STEAM LOCOMOTIVES.
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