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The Railroad Man's Magazine
Railroad Man's Magazine, October 1906, Vol. 1, No. 1, published by Frank A. Munsey Company. This inaugural issue combines technical railroad content with fiction and entertainment for railroad workers. Featured stories include "Four-Flushing" by Cy Warman, "Dan' Quixote" by Louis Joseph Vance, "Kitty's Suit-Case Comedy" by Jane De Leuw, "Corks and the Commodore" by Harry D. Couzens, "The House of Suspicion" by Edgar Franklin, "A Cowboy Knight Errant" by Leo Crane, "Andy the Peacemaker" by Frederick Walworth Brown, and "Doc's Beau" by Caroline Lockhart. Factual articles cover railroad history, famous train robberies by Charles Frances Bourke, locomotive development, and railroad economics. Gilson Willets' "A Whole Nation on Wheels" examines America's 700 million annual railroad passengers traveling 22 billion miles. The issue includes poetry, biographies of railroad pioneers, true stories from railroad workers, and humorous pieces alongside editorials by Munsey articulating the magazine's mission to serve railroad industry employees and families.