My question is simple, how old is the magazine. I looked at the website and found back issues going back to 2000. Is that the time of this magazines birth?
Magnus
2000 is about the time of the birth of Classic Trains. I have saved them from issue 1 and looking at the bookcase in the closet where they are stored it looks about right. I am too lazy to pull them out and actually look. I guess it would be an idea to put tabs with the starting date under each of my railroad magazines I collect. My collection includes many magazines from Historical Societies I belong to as well including Santa Fe, Great Northern, Southern Pacific etc.
Thanks for the help. Well then I know that I have the possibility of back ordering every one of those issues.
Magnus
Well, Pentrex produced a magazine called “Vintage Rails” 1995-1999, I was a subscriber to that. It was very similar to the current Classic Trains mag. In 1999 VR went out of production and subscribers were sent a letter saying their VR subscription would fold over into Classic Trains. I can’t remember for sure if Classic Trains was already underway at that point, or if they just started when VR folded?? Anyway I guess 1999-2000 would be about right.
I’m sure somebody at Kalmbach knows how old Classic Trains is, but if you look at the title page, the volume number for 2007 is Volume 8. The Spring edition was Number 1 and the Winter edition is Number 4. Going by volume numbers, 1999 would be Volume 1. I was a charter subscriber as was my older brother Richard. Somewhere in the house, Volume 1 Number 1 is lurking but finding it is another story.
Art
That would make it 2000. If it starts at 2000 that is 1 and then 2007 is 8. You just forgot to count the 0 as 1, a misstake I often do my self.
Thanks for all of you guys helping me out. Except the issue about the B&O’s big sixes, are there any other issues with info about the B&O?
Magnus
Volume 1,number 1 is Spring 2000.
There was a special issue of trains in 1999 I believe with the title Classic Trains. Also, around 1995 or so there was also a series of magazines from Kalmbach with the same subject. Have to check it out at home.
greetings,
Marc Immeker
Argh!
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Art 0
Note to Self: Must learn arithmetic.
Art
I purchased some old Trains and Railroad magazines from an Antique shop that was closing down in Osborne Village in Winnipeg, they are quite rare to find these days, but show you just the way railroading was in those days. Espcecially the “In Search of the Sun” with Harry Bedwell the fictional “Boom-Mic” operator, in those days railroading on passenger trains was quite still common, and the adventures in there are awesome.
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An easily made mistake. I know I had to count on my fingers just to be sure I wasn’t saying stupid. There is nothing worse then trying to say someone is wrong while being wring one self. [:D]
About the B&O issues. Anyone issue in particular you guys can recommend? I started subscribing this last summer so any ideas before that would be great.
Magnus
The issue in 1999 was titled “Trains Classic”.I have it and all issues of “Classic Trains”.
OK that’s probably what I was thinking about in my earlier post - “Vintage Rails” subscribers were switched over to Kalmbach’s “Trains Classic”…which then became “Classic Trains”.
Now that I know what Train Classic is, I want have to bang my haead against a wall.[banghead]