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All Time Index Magazine Index 1929-1969 Soft Cover 1970 All-Time index
All-Time Index Magazine Index 1929-1969
Soft Cover
Copyright 1970
186 Pages
INTRODUCTION
This index is a guide to the articles, plans and rosters which have appeared in the four most important American magazines devoted to railroads and model railroading. It is nowhere near as complete as the yearly indexes of each of these publications, nor did we ever intend it to be. Rather, we have concentrated on material of permanent reference value, avoiding the brief, insubstantial items which would have taken up space all out of proportion to their usefulness.
We have arranged the entries in forty-eight categories which are grouped in ten sections under the general headings of Prototype Railroading and Model Railroading, each with five sections. A careful examination of the Contents pages will quickly reveal the structure we have used, but a few clarifying remarks are in order. The Foreign Railways category includes all material on roads outside the United States and Canada except for a few entries for named passenger trains
and rosters of locomotives which have been placed in the appropriate categories. Entries for bridges, tunnels, yards and stations will be found under Right-of-Way. Descriptions of railroad activity in particular cities, states and areas have been put in the Geographic category. Articles on specific traction lines are indexed by railroad name under Railroad History and Operation; other traction material has been placed in the category for Traction History and Cars.
And finally, we have arbitrarily placed the plan categories under Model Railroading - the plan drawings are of prototype locomotives, cars and structures, but their interest and usefulness is chiefly to modelers.
Each index entry consists of a two-letter magazine code, followed by the month, year and page number. The codes are:
MR - Model Railroader
RMC - Railroad Model Craftsman RR - Railroad Magazine
TR - Trains Magazine
Thus, the entry "TR Aug 55 p18" would refer the reader to Trains Magazine for August, 1955, page 18. Three of the four magazines have been known by other names in the past; we have used only their present-day titles in this index, but have set forth their genealogies in a Historical Note following this Introduction.
We have generally used commonly-accepted corporate names for railroads, but in some instances a nickname or shortened version is used instead. Readers seeking index entries for the Nickel Plate, Monon, Cotton Belt or Soo Line railroads should look under those names.
In omitting certain types of material from coverage in this index, we do not disparage them in any way, but simply exclude them as being inconsistent with our general purposes and plans. We have not indexed fiction, photograph essays, poetry, or those articles so strongly subjective or personalized as to be of entertainment value only. Nor have we covered specific railfan groups, model railroad clubs or individual model train layouts, although certain instructional articles on elements of layout design have been indexed.
STEPHANS Railroad Directory for Model Railroader/Train, Railroad/Railfan, Railroad Model Craftsman and other titles and speciality topics also available. If you have one you would like to see listed, let me know.
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