Railroad Magazine

Railroad Man's Magazine was a pulp magazine which began October, 1906. The magazine was published under different names and formats throughout its history. It was the first specialized pulp with stories and articles about the railroads. In 1919, it merged with Argosy which became Argosy and Railroad Man’s Magazine for a brief period before reverting back to Argosy, thus killing Railroad Man's Magazine.

In 1929, when freelance author William Edward Hayes announced he was bringing out a new railroad-oriented pulp, the Munsey company recruited him to edit a revival of Railroad Man's Magazine. He was soon replaced by Freeman H. Hubbard. In 1932, the title was simplified to Railroad Stories, then changed to Railroad Magazine in 1937. After December 1942, Railroad Magazine was published by Popular Publications, which purchased the Munsey Company. It dropped fiction after August, 1954.

The name "pulp" comes from the cheap wood pulp paper on which such magazines were printed. Magazines printed on better paper and usually offering family-oriented content were often called "glossies" or "slicks". Pulps were the successor to the "penny dreadfuls", "dime novels", and short fiction magazines of the nineteenth century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are perhaps best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories, and for their similarly sensational cover art. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Phantom Detective.

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Titled The Railroad Man's Magazine to Jun-1913; then Railroad and Current Mechanics to Dec-1913; then Railroad Man's Magazine to 18-Jan-1919 when it merged with Argosy until Dec-1929 when it restarted; titled Railroad Stories from Feb-1932; then Railroad Magazine from Sep-1937 to Jan-1979.

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