and when I do its a month behind. Time to break down and get a online subscription
Amazon lets you buy by the month. Go give it a try to see if it works for you. (I have a Kindle, but they do have a PC reader).
I buy Trains from Barnes & Noble on my Nook ereader. It is not in color, but I could care less.
I subscribed to Trains for more than 25 years. Then I had an ah-ha moment! I was not interested in most of the articles. So I quite subscribing to the magazine. Now, if an edition has at least two articles that I want to read, I buy it on my Nook.
When you buy magazines from Amazon, B&N, etc. you can store them on their server until the cows come home.
I have the same problem, at the stores where I use to buy it I asked why it was no longer available, in both places I was told sales of the magazine were bad. Model Railroader and Classic Trains still on the stand.
Let’s face it - any rail-oriented magazine is a niche market.
We’re probably lucky that anyone outside of hobby shops even considers stocking it…
A knitting magazine would probably have better sales…
The grocery store where I would usually find Trains dropped down to just Model Railroader and now has cut their magazine section in half. This may be more of an industry trend.
Try a local Barnes and Noble, the ones around me always seem to have the current issues of “Trains” plus the other rail-related mags. Possibly there’s a big railfan base here, enough to support stocking said magazines. Or, check your local rail-heavy hobby shops.
Or, just subscribe like I did. I get both “Trains” and “Classic Trains.”