A loose title page from the 1940 (tenth) edition of “Who’s Who in Railroading in North America,” published by The Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 30 Church Street, New York. The page is foxed and spotted; a horizontal fold-crease runs across the lower third where the sheet was once folded in half (the crease is most visible as a slight line of soiling running between the title block and the publisher’s imprint). There are no hidden pencil notes, captions, or attribution marks anywhere on the page — neither in the wide margins nor at the page edges nor faintly under the foxing. The page is a stand-alone keepsake. The accompanying biographical entry (if any, presumably for a Walker / FitzSimons / McEwan family member listed in the directory’s main alphabetical section) is not present in the album; only the title page was saved. The volume’s predecessor title — “The Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America” — is given on the page itself, dating the series’ rename to the 1930 (sixth?) edition.

A loose title page only — the corresponding biographical entry from the body of the directory is not preserved in the album. The keeper’s interest in this 1940 volume is unstated; given the album’s family context the most likely subject of a saved entry would be James Pickens Walker Sr. (“Puck”, 1883–1960), the compiler’s husband, who worked in transportation; but without the biographical clipping itself the connection is conjectural. The Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation specialised in railway trade publications from its New York office at 30 Church Street.