The Iron Horse -1931

Ten years later, according to This article  Adele Gutman Nathan(1889-1986) would be chief script writer for the U.S. Department of education. The article says:

""Her greatest successes came as a writer and producer of historical pageants. She staged commemorative events for cities, corporations, and groups, including the centenaries of the B&O Railroad (1927) and of International Harvester (1929), the 1933 and 1939 World’s Fairs, the cities of Rochester, New York (1934), and Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1949), the American Jewish Tercentenary in Trenton (1955), and the Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1963). In 1974, she wrote How to Plan and Conduct a Bicentennial Celebration for the American Bicentennial."

She wrote 12 books that I know about, three of which involved trains. She also stared in what looks like a superlatively creepy movie.

Margaret S. Ernst seems to be lost to the internet; maybe someday her time will come.

Regarding boys who have a "train interest" - I imagine a list like this:

Diseases of Childhood:

• Chickenpox
• Mumps
• Measles
• "Train Interest" (incurable)