The Railroad Man's Magazine

The October 1906 inaugural issue of The Railroad Man's Magazine, published by Frank A. Munsey, combines technical railroad content with fiction, humor, and poetry for railroad workers and enthusiasts. Featured articles by named contributors include Gilson Willets's "A Whole Nation on Wheels," examining America's 700 million annual railroad passengers and their $456 million annual expenditure; Charles Francis Bourke's "Great Train Robberies of the United States"; and biographical entries on railroad pioneers. Fiction pieces include Louis Joseph Vance's "'Dan' Quixote," Edgar Franklin's "The House of Suspicion," and Leo Crane's "A Cowboy Knight Errant." Historical and educational features cover locomotive development, international rail routes (including speculative pieces on New York to Cuba and London to New York rail connections), and railroad industry economics. Poetry contributions include work attributed to John Godfrey Saxe. True-story sections feature accounts like "A Mad Run with a Maniac" and personal narratives from railroad workers.