has arrived in Delavan. WOO HOO!
Nice to see the Aurora, IL post office is also “on the ball”, mine arrived minutes ago and I will be reading it over the weekend.
I, too, have some weekend reading ahead of me. Interesting “then and now” map of the MILW.
Got mine out here in Oregon.
Yes, I also noticed the Milwaukee Road map and it brought back memories of when I lived in Wausau, WI back in the 1970’s.
It has also arrived in NE Indiana, too.
CW’s and mine has been here for a couple of days, haven’t had a chance to get through it yet, does look like some very interesting reading.
It arrived in North Dallas today
Mine arrived here in NE Missouri Monday. I was like… what?! It’s only June!
My Issue has not yet arrived and I feel rather left out. [:(]
My anticipation grows with each day as I have been closely watching the mail of a week now, each day my hopes have been crushed by loads of junk mail and bills.
Perhaps the sun will come out tomorrow and the Mailman will see me fit to receive a fresh issue of TRAINS Magazine.
Still waiting in Dixon, Illinois
Later Bill
True story: I got my issue of Trains today. I thought I had gotten it on Monday[D)]
We got home Monday from a 12 day vacation to Lake Superior. There is a little book store in northern Wisconsin, where I can usually find a couple dozen old Trains magazines every year for a couple bucks each. As my wife and I were going through a stack of mostly junk mail, she handed me a Trains magazine. I thought “Oh-cool!”, and put it aside. Later, after the kids were in bed, I sneaked a quick peek at the magazine. It looked good! The cover articles were: Norfolk Southern’s Coal Kingdom, Last Electrics on the Milwaukee Road, and Grand Trunk’s Recycled Geeps. Everyone has a different way of reading a magazine or book. I thumb my way quickly through the magazine, then I start at the front. “Railroad News: Jonah swallows the Whale”, about the BN/SF merger is the first major article? Huh?[:O] News photos: the first of SP’s C44-9W’s??? I have to admit, it was late, and I was tired. I flipped through to the article Highballing on the information super railroad: a computer with a modem opens up vast possibilities for railfans. I must have entered the twighlight zone, as I read about CompuServe/Prodigy/GEnie/America Online/ and Fidonet. Finally, it hit me (((bong!!!)). I flipped back to the cover. The date was September 1994. It was apparent that I had found one of the old issues. It was late. I was tired. I went to bed.[|)]
…No TRAINS mag. in this part of Indiana yet.
Hit Houston this afternoon…
Has been read by the 8 year old and the 14 year old, but not the subscriber as of right now.
Is this like the radar tracking of Santa on Christmas eve?
Sort of. It actually serves as a monthly feed back to the success of the multi carrier system employed for the distribution of the magazine. In the past deliveries could be spread out by ten days-but the forum gave honors and homage to the member who was first to receive the new issue.
Assuming Trains is printed in Waukesha, WI, which may be incorrect, it is funny someone around 50 miles from there receives it on the same day someone around 2,000 miles from there also receives it. I must have an earlier one.
…It is weird how it seems to be distributed around the nation. Northern Indiana reported in with a new copy…Central In. here, nothing yet…Walt/Paula have their copy just to the south of Indiana…and out west some have arrived. And Ed, down so far south has his avail. to read…That is, after he gets in line to do so.
OK, here is what I know about the printing and distribution of Trains for subscribers. Unless there has been a recent change, the printer is QuadGraphics. http://www.qg.com/ They are a big printing operation and I have heard that they print some of the most popular magazines. I think Trains is printed at a plant near Waukesha.
The printer uses United Parcel Service to ship Trains, along with other titles from the plant to USPS facilities. I think UPS will take them directly to local Post Offices, but if not, they go to the USPS center that ships directly to the local Post offices. Using the “Plus 4” Zip Codes, the magazines are packaged for easy sorting by carrier route.
As most know, UPS’s regular surface service keeps quite close to established schedules. It is then possible for the printer to schedule shipments so that the magazines all arrive on or about the same day for any subscriber in the US. It is pretty slick.
[#dots]…SOUTHEAST KANSAS,arrived Thur 6/29/07!!![^][8D]
Got mine in Burbank yesterday. It looks very interesting even from a quick scan. The news article on MPI was pretty good.