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    Amtrak's Onboard Magazine

    I understand that Amtrak publishes an onboard magazine, 'The National', which I assume is broadly comparable to those produced by the airlines. Two questions. First, is it any good? I've never seen one! And second, is it being published at the moment? According to the website, the last issue was...
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    Canadian Railway Magazines?

    I'm posting this for a friend here in the UK: "I’ve recently become interested in Canadian Railways and wondered whether there are any magazines that cover this subject other than the two big North American titles, TRAINS and RAILFAN & RAILROAD? There seems to have been a magazine called...
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    Best book on the Penn Central collapse?

    I've recently become interested in the history of the ill-starred and short-lived Penn Central, and wondered what would be the best book to get? I found three on amazon: 'The Wreck of the Penn Central' by Joseph R. Daughen and Peter Binzen 'No Way to Run a Railroad: Untold Story of the Penn...
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    Railroad advertising/pin up girls?

    Sorry, I wasn't assuming that these three were metal signs, more likely posters - but, as you correctly point out, the middle one has a section to cut out and mail in so can't even have been that! There seems to be quite a few adverts/posters (or whatever) for the Hiawatha. I'm guessing that...
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    Railroad advertising/pin up girls?

    Yes, I should probably have called them 'not authentic' rather than 'fakes'! I think this is more the sort of thing I'm looking for:
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    Railroad advertising/pin up girls?

    Thanks for the replies. You've confirmed my suspicions - that these are, indeed, fakes.
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    Railroad advertising/pin up girls?

    I’ve been doing some research on advertising (posters & signs etc.) from the so-called ‘golden age’ of railroading and stumbled across these attached images. (This is only a small sample by the way). I’d never seen them before and they set a few alarm bells ringing in my head. I did a bit of...



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