tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post6488351724240575128..comments2024-03-25T00:14:06.647-07:00Comments on Pulp Flakes: Review: The Railroad Man's Magazine, June 1916Sai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-16843018816740475952021-10-09T16:05:05.277-07:002021-10-09T16:05:05.277-07:00Rick,
I disagree with you about dialect and slan...Rick, <br /><br />I disagree with you about dialect and slang in story and dialog. I find them good in limited amounts, painful when plentiful. I had the same criticism to make earlier about an <a href="https://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2016/03/adventure-march-15-1928-issue-review.html" rel="nofollow">Alan LeMay story in <em>Adventure</em></a>.<br /><br />I guess the best analogy I can give you is that if I was reading an English story featuring a French protagonist, I'd expect the dialog to be mostly in English. Bits of French here and there would be acceptable. But if the entire dialog was in French, I'd have to learn a whole new language to read it. Not gonna happen. Maybe my loss but I'd take the risk.<br /><br />I had no trouble reading the railroading non-fiction in the same issue and enjoyed it. I've also read and enjoyed a few Harry Bedwell stories. And I plan to read more issues of this magazine. But not this story.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-90580674204623879912021-10-09T11:10:46.972-07:002021-10-09T11:10:46.972-07:00"Hiram on a “Baching” job by prolific pulpste..."Hiram on a “Baching” job by prolific pulpster Charles W. Tyler turned out to be impenetrably clotted with dated railroad slang, and I didn’t feel up to trying to figure it out."<br /><br />Westerns are impenetrably clotted with dated western slang, until you read enough stories and learn the lingo.<br />Mysteries are similarly beset.<br />Flying stories depend on the reader knowing an aileron from a rudder.<br /><br />Railroad stories about railroading are similar. One has to understand the slang and the business of railroading to follow the plots.<br /><br />RRM is often afflicted with a more dated writing style.<br />You just have to find and read more of them.<br /><br />Issues of railroad Stories, 1929-1954 with several title changes, has a more approachable writing style. One will learn the slang and become a "readin' rail" with little effort. Rick Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215251778156892902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-24997438663551752122021-10-09T11:01:09.824-07:002021-10-09T11:01:09.824-07:00I do not have many, but the issues in the late tee...I do not have many, but the issues in the late teens are much more common issues from 1906-1913. Rick Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215251778156892902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-46337468913310054722021-10-09T10:58:51.392-07:002021-10-09T10:58:51.392-07:00This was a 1916 issue. RMM ran until 1919.
This wa...This was a 1916 issue. RMM ran until 1919.<br />This was out of the ordinary issue because of the 40 page long non-railroad tale.<br /><br />Perhaps the actual railroad magazines of the era were taking over.<br />Rick Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215251778156892902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-27841255097684539072021-10-07T11:55:21.574-07:002021-10-07T11:55:21.574-07:00I knew they were rare, but i would'nt have gue...I knew they were rare, but i would'nt have guessed that they were rarer than <em>All-Story</em> or <em>Cavalier</em>. You're probably right on the way the readers treated these, and I'm guessing they were also not considered interesting enough to save. Unlike <em>All-Story</em> Burroughs issues, which are somewhat common but high-priced.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-21877971080004364802021-10-07T11:52:58.507-07:002021-10-07T11:52:58.507-07:00Good to know. I wonder what made it successful lat...Good to know. I wonder what made it successful later. Nostalgia?Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-83295263135151636492021-10-07T10:41:25.462-07:002021-10-07T10:41:25.462-07:00Over many decades I managed to put together comple...Over many decades I managed to put together complete or extensive runs of many of the Munsey pulps such as All Story, Argosy, Cavalier, and Munsey Magazine but I never found many of the early Railroad Man's Magazine in the teens.<br /><br />I imagine many workers in the railroad business bought the magazine, read it and left it in stations, cabooses, and trains all over the country. Maybe this is why we don't have many issues in present day collections.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-11683826357676292962021-10-04T06:29:16.092-07:002021-10-04T06:29:16.092-07:00http://www.philsp.com/mags/railroad.htmlhttp://www.philsp.com/mags/railroad.htmljean-yveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10708792696864817354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-37988286176565866832021-10-02T11:08:24.797-07:002021-10-02T11:08:24.797-07:00Thank you for doing the review! I've never see...Thank you for doing the review! I've never seen one of these early issues, but it sounds a lot like the revived pulp 1929-54. Presumably it folded because it just wasn't selling enough copies to cover its costs; they certainly tried some weird combinations in the last year of its life.magscannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753073251415624414noreply@blogger.com