Total shock over 70 pages. A issue like it use to be, and to my point of view should still be.
Yeah, I picked up an old 97 issue the other day. I was surprised how many pages and the content! Admittedly there was a lot of hobby store/mail order adds. It’s sad seeing how many previous advertisers have either closed or stopped advertising.
Now hold on a second. You can relive the more robust former CTT days by simply opening up your December issue and cramming in new Kalmbach copies of Best Toy Train Layouts, Creative Toy Train Track Plans, Collectible Lionel Classics, 101 Classic Toy Trains, Wiring Your Toy Train Layout, Modern Toy Train Repair and Maintenance, etc,etc,etc…
Right…?
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Good issue.
VERY good issue! Got it yesterday and I’m looking forward to reading it.
By comparison, I’ve looked at it compared to the December 2013 issue (The one too good to consign to the recycle bin!) and the 2019 issue is 74 pages vs. 90 for the 2013. Too true, there are a lot of advertisers not there anymore, but what are you gonna do? Time marches on.
I’d like to know how many pages where in 2018, 2017
Uh, sorry, can’t help you there, I didn’t keep those.
Seventy-four for each of December 2017, 2018, and 2019.
And for BTTL and many recent issues, we can fill our idle time by trying to count all the “tips and tricks” touted on the covers! (supposedly Roger counted at least the 501 in the BTTL special issue)
(the BTTL does seem like a good issue, and I actually bought two (one for a family member), but the “X tips and tricks inside” thing on the cover is getting old.)
After I wrote the post above, I realized that each sheet of paper that goes into a magazine comprises 4 pages in the resulting magazine. So the number of pages should be a multiple of 4, and 74 is not a multiple of 4.
I went back and checked the magazines. Sure enough, the last page before the back cover is numbered 74, making the first page after the front cover page 3. So there are either 72 pages numbered 3 through 74 or 76 pages numbered 1 through 76, including the covers and starting with the outside front cover.
The fact that the newest issue includes a Menard’s catalog in the middle may have given the impression that the magazine contains more editorial matter than in recent years.
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Now hold on a second. You can relive the more robust former CTT days by simply opening up your December issue and cramming in new Kalmbach copies of Best Toy Train Layouts, Creative Toy Train Track Plans, Collectible Lionel Classics, 101 Classic Toy Trains, Wiring Your Toy Train Layout, Modern Toy Train Repair and Maintenance, etc,etc,etc…
Right…?
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RIGHT!!!
Right Banks. Things we should see in CTT are all offered as seperate sale items.
Aside My CTT just arrived with a stinky insert, made my eyes water and nose run. Thanks CTT.
S.J.
December & January CTT issues used to clock in at 150+ pages. Were talking mid 90’s to early 2000’s. The internet and rising subscription rates have killed publishing and the aging out of Baby Boomers hasn’t helped either.
Kudos to CTT for reducing the subscription price if if it meant sacraficing an issue. I tried an e-subscription to OGR magazine but thier app is poorly built and it was diffacult to read.