Railroad Gazette
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Railroad Gazette, published as Western Railroad Gazette from its founding until 1870,[1] was a trade journal first published by Stanley C. Fowler, assisted by James J. Schock, in April 1856 at 128 South Clark St., Chicago, which focused on railroad, transportation and engineering topics. Master mechanics read and used the publication to share information about railway matters with one another.[2] An article in the publication documented what was purported to be the first locomotive run in the United States on a railroad, which was stated as performed by the author of the article. It also reported about the Erie Railroad's Rochester Division's electrification and about the opening of the Thebes Bridge. Over time Railroad Gazette editors included Arthur Mellen Wellington, Silas Wright Dunning (1838–1924) and Matthias Nace Forney with Horace Cleveland as an article contributor. The journal was sold by Fowler in 1870 to A.N. Kellogg (Ansel Nash Kellogg 1832-1886), who retained Schock.[3][4]
Another publication of the same name Railroad Gazette was established in 1843 in Rogersville, Tennessee.[5] It focused exclusively upon "internal improvement".[5]