I appreciate Mr Miller responding, but in typical mgmt fashion. I hear that polished “stuff” at work all day long from management. It will be the action of the parent Kalmbach that will speak to whether they really give 2 craps about the substance of the magazine or not. Unfortunatlly the ones pulling the strings are far above Mr Miller’s position in the company. All I can say is they need to take a hard look at past issues thru the early years and the substance they had that is now sorely lacking. If that means 4 issues a year to achieve that, then so be it. I will look forward to that. But if I see 4 issues that are thin as the most recent one, then its a hard pass. Even the local bookstore no longer carries CTT on their shelves, or at least its never there when I stop in. And they are a nationwide chain/tied to Barnes & Noble. Classic toy trains is and should be a fond tie to the past combined with the new. Seeing much less of the past and just new stuff and ad’s pushing the new stuff. The holiday issue should be the thickest of the year like it once was. With layout holiday layout pics, store window layouts of the past, kids layouts. I should make both kids and adults want toy trains for Christmas. I find myself rereading my old issues of all the magazines that are under the Kalmbach ownership as the new ones leave me unsatisified and feel like $$ wasted on the issue I purchased. For your demographics, I am 48, so I did not grow up in the 50’s, I grew up in the MPC/LTI era of Lionel and have had Lionel since I was a young boy. I backdated my trains to Postwar/Prewar as those MPC years were a bit lacking, and the LTI stuff was beyond my means in those years. Best wishes to all the staff at CTT in the coming new year! Mike