Emmett Watson provides a dramatic cover for this issue of RAILROAD STORIES. Inside are stories by E.S. Dellinger, the star author of RAILROAD STORIES, as well as John A. Thompson (who wrote as The Engine Picture Kid), Earle Davis, and Searle B. Faires, who got the cover story. Faires is a mystery to me. He published half a dozen stories in 1933-35, all of them in RAILROAD STORIES, and that's the extent of his career. I'm always curious about writers like that who appear to be on the verge of success but then disappear. It's possible that he died, of course, or just stopped writing for some other reason. But the mystery always intrigues me.
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