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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Lost and Found: All Aboard the Trackless Train

Posted May 14, 2012 10:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: trackless train

Some cars you learn about in dribs and drabs. A hint here and there, and after a while, you eventually find the whole story. This mystery trackless train, however, has absolutely refused to give up its secrets since we first came across it last year.

This time, thanks to H.A.M.B. member ehdubya, we discovered it hanging out in the Library of Congress's online photo archive, posed with Vice President Charles Curtis, second from left. Unfortunately, the Library of Congress doesn't elaborate any further, so we can only guess that the photo was taken in Washington, D.C., and that it was taken during Curtis's tenure as veep under Herbert Hoover from March 1929 to March 1933 (he died in February 1936, which at least puts a definitive last possible date taken on this photo).

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