Freeman H. Hubbard (21 April 1894 – August 1981) was an American writer known for his articles and books about railroads. He was editor of

Railroad Magazine ''Railroad Magazine'' was a pulp magazine founded by Frank Munsey, Frank Anderson Munsey and published October 1906 to January 1979. It was the first specialized pulp magazine with stories and articles about rail transport, railroads. The magazin ...

for 42 years, from 1930 until its demise in 1979, with seven years away while he worked as a freelance writer from 1946 to 1953. (The magazine was named Railroad Man's Magazine in 1930, when Hubbard succeeded editor William Edward Hayes, being renamed Railroad Stories in 1932 and, finally, Railroad Magazine in 1937.) . He wrote widely about railroad history, legend and lore, including famous personalities such as

Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Ce ...

, John Henry,

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and

Kate Shelley Catherine Carroll "Kate" Shelley (December 12, 1863 – January 21, 1912) was a midwestern United States railroad heroine and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named after her, the Kate Shelley High Bridge. She was also one of ...

. He was Secretary of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists.''Time'', Volume 9, By Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce
/ref> He was born “at the end of a Philadelphia street car line” and died in

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after a long life filled with hard work, writing, world traveling, kindness to and empathy for all creatures, and love for his family and his wife Naomi Critchett Hubbard.

Selected works

*''Encyclopedia of North American Railroading: 150 Years of Railroading in the United States and Canada''. (1981) *''Great Days of the Circus.'' With Leonard V. Farley. (1962) *''Great Trains of All Time''. Illustrated by Herb Mott. (1962) *''Railroad avenue: Great Stories and Legends of American Railroading''. (1945) *''Roundhouse Cat and Other Railroad Animals''. Illustrated by

Kurt Wiese Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 – May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors. Background Kurt Wiese was born on April 22, 1887, in Minden, Germ ...

. (1951) *''The Railroad Caboose: Its 100-year History, Legend, and Lore''. With William F. Knapke. (1968) *''The Train That Never Came Back, and Other Railroad Stories''. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. (1952) Later republished in an abridged form as ''The Phantom Brakeman and Other Railroad Stories'' by Scholastic Book Services. (1966) *''Vinnie Ream and Mr. Lincoln''. (1949)

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Copac National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue
American male non-fiction writers American magazine editors 1894 births 1981 deaths Writers from New York City 20th-century American male writers {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub