.007

".007"
".007"
Short story by Rudyard Kipling
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short story
Publication
Published in	August 1897
Publisher	Scribner's Magazine

".007" (originally subtitled "The Story of an American Locomotive")^[1] is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is a story in which steam locomotives are characters (".007" is the serial number of the protagonist), somewhat like the later, better-known tales of The Railway Series by Wilbert Awdry and his son.

^ The subtitle was present when the story was first published in the August 1897 issue of Scribner's Magazine, but it did not appear when the story was anthologised in The Day's Work one year later. Wilson, Alastair (25 November 2005). ".007". The New Readers' Guide to the Works of Rudyard Kipling. The Kipling Society. Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 7 July 2006.

[1] The subtitle was present when the story was first published in the August 1897 issue of Scribner's Magazine, but it did not appear when the story was anthologised in The Day's Work one year later. Wilson, Alastair (25 November 2005). ".007". The New Readers' Guide to the Works of Rudyard Kipling. The Kipling Society. Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 7 July 2006.

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