Allright allready. Since everyone has opinions about each month’s magazine,and what it should and shouldn’t be…What is your recolection of the best issue so far? And why? This should be interesting, given the range of tastes we have on this forum.[:)] Thanks
Trouble maker.
The Swimsuit issue is my favorite.
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Probably the 75th anniversary EMD issue.
Hard to believe it’s been almost 9 years now.
Who Shot The Passenger Train (1959?)
For me it is the EMD Issue or the Amtrak 25 Issue liked both of them. But several of them have been very good.
If you can wait about six months, I will drag out all 400 plus editions in the boxes in my basement and re-read them all and then give you my opinion. THEY ARE ALL GREAT IN SOME WAY!
My personal favorite is the issue in 2003 dedicated to Chicago, but like eolafan says, they are all great in some way.
They all are great magazines in one way or another;
However;some of MY favorive articles were done by David P. Morgan.
Especially the ones of Louisville’s Union Station,The various railroads
Kentucky Derby Trains,and the people associated with them.
My time frame is since 1972 (started subscribing then)…
Either the PRR sesquicentannial or another PRR heavy issue whose year/month escapes me (and I haven’t time to look it up) but the cover article was about the Pennsy G5’s.
I don’t think any line (even the L&N) brought out the best of DPM quite like the Pennsylvania.
But add my voice to the chorus, “there ain’t been a bad one yet!”
My best is an issue that came out in 1999 titled…
CONRAIL Mission Accomplished. [:(]
I’ll put my voe in for the 75th anniversary of EMD as well. 2nd would be the issue that contained part 2 of the Wisconsin Central Story.
I think that the “best issue ever” of Trains magazine has gotta be the next issue., and have felt that way since the day I picked up my very first issue.
I keep waiting for one I could call “the very best”, and I’m still waiting [:)]
as everyone has said every issue has been great reading. the one that sticks out for me is the one where they featured union pacific.in that issue they featured a step by step pic of the train what it was hauling and where the cars were going.very well done.
stay safe
Joe
I would have to agree with Joe about that UP issue–November 1995. It sold out very quickly, and I couldn’t get extra copies for friends and relatives.
Unfortunately, the timing was bad–it was October 1995 (soon after I received said issue) that CNW was operationally absorbed into UP, and that’s when the first meltdown began. Things haven’t lived up to the rosy picture painted in that issue since.
(Admittedly, things have gotten better in some ways, though.)
But I really think that everyone’s going to have a different favorite–I like the Chicago issues (two have been published since I’ve been subscribing, and the original 1948 issue is in my collection), Mutt likes the issues with Louisville in them. I think everyone likes issues that deal with familiar stuff–stuff you can relate to–and increases your knowledge and familiarity with it.
Somehow, I missed the swimsuit issue…you sure that wasn’t Railroad Magazine?
Mine will always be the issues that first got me going on the magazine and more into my hobby. They are the 1980 issues beginning with the Article about the restoration of Berkshire 765 and the end of the Western Maryland. Just because the whole thing to me was so new, and I really enjoyed the contents and the editorials by DPM. The revamped magazine has never been as good, in my opinion. But I will always be a loyal reader.
My favorite was the ?,1978 issue on railroads of Nevada by Ted Benson.
A close second would be the recent issue that had Mark Hemphill’s article on the SP demise.
The 1980 issue (was it October?) dedicated to the Rock Island on its demise. If only they had done one on the O&W back in 1957 or the L&NE in 1961…
Being a dining car fan this current issue ranks high as well.
[#ditto]VERY WELL SAID! [:I]