For anyone interested here is a link to the online source of the "Frisco Line" magazines printed between 1902-1935.

A warning though, they are very informative, interesting and will keep you reading for hours. They are also crammed with ads for watches, watchmakers etc if you look.

Also gives an informative look at the populating of the midwest and western states.
http://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/magazines/

Ray, thanks for posting the link! While I am not a railroad person, I did see a lot of articles on other subjects and lots of period advertising. Lots of interesting articles!

Yeah, thanks, Ray! I picked March, 1911, page 3 to check it out and came up with the following advertisement..... I thought the text was very interesting.

Trivia of the day: It looks like the "Montgomery Dial" was first referred to as, "The Minute Numeral Dial", and was 'invented' by a watch inspector for the Santa Fe RR named Montgomery.

I enjoy reading these old journals. They're a real window on what was going on in this country at the time they were published.

Prior to and including 1929, they seem to be 80 pages thick or more. By 1934, only 30 pages. Seems the 'Great Depression' wasn't so great. Even their 'jokes' changed to a darker type during that period.

GREAT read! Thanks! I've added the link to my 'favorites' list.

Regards! Mark

Thanks for the posting Mike, can you tell me how to cut and paste an advertisement as you did. I tried with a sangamo add and it just wouldnt work.

Ray

Ray

One way to do it is if you have Picasa or another photo program & are using Windows, hold down the CTRL key & then press prt scr. If you use PICASA it dumps your screen into a folder called screen captures. You can then crop the photo.

If you use a different program after hitting the two keys your screen is captured to your clip board, so all you have to do is paste your clip board into the program.

One other way to do it is if you have Adobe photoshop, is to down load the pdf file onto your PC, Adode photoshop can then open pdf files one page at a time & then you can save it as a jpeg or whatever you want.

Hope this makes sense. The image below is a screen capture using CTL/PRT SCR & Picasa

Tom

Think I got it Tom, Thank you. I am using a mac and sometimes a bit different to figure out,

Ray

Your welcome Ray, I don't know a thing about Mac's.

Tom

On a Mac, when you see an image you want to save on the Web you can usually just grab it with your mouse and drag it out of your browser window and onto your desktop. If you can't get it to drag and drop you can take a screen grab instead. To grab the whole screen click the Apple key, the sift key and the number 3 at the same time. To capture just a portion of the screen click the Apple key, the shift key and the number 4 at the same time and then drag around the area you want to capture.

Mary Ann...

You just keep reading them magazines and you'll get adicted. It happened to me way back in the '50s, and it happened to many others. Hang on!

Ray and Mitch - I've copied the link to my desktop so I can open a few sections at a time and read the articles. Pretty neat stuff in them! I'll just have to add another addiction to my list!

Thanks Chris, works like a charm.

Mary Ann, I too am addicted. I've been reading them for 2 days now and barely broke the ice. They are loaded with information.

Ray