{"id":59641,"date":"2023-05-08T03:47:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59641"},"modified":"2023-12-06T18:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:37:19","slug":"still-puffing-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/still-puffing-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Still puffing along&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a youth Lovecraft read every issue of <em>Railroad Men&#8217;s Magazine<\/em> (1906-). I had no end-date for the title, and had thus idly assumed it was a defunct title by the time he wistfully recalled it. But no. Rolling around the tracks on Archive.org comes <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/railroad-mans-magazine-v-03-n-01-1930-08.-munsey-team-dpp-ia\/mode\/2up\">a new scan of <em>Railroad Man&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, still puffing along in August 1930. Perhaps a revival of the old title, though, under a slightly different name?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/railroad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/railroad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"431\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s then amusing to think that this could have been a market Lovecraft might have entered, and that (in an alt. timeline) all we might now have from him would be a series of railroad ghost stories c. 1910-1925 set on the fog-bound coastlines of New England. Or perhaps fantastical Lost Race tales of railroads being pioneered through the Arctic wastes, across unexplored mountains, or deep under the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a youth Lovecraft read every issue of Railroad Men&#8217;s Magazine (1906-). I had no end-date for the title, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/still-puffing-along\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59641"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62432,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59641\/revisions\/62432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}