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How to Model Today’s Railroads
No indication as to whether this book is just a compilation of older MR articles, all new content or a combination of the two. As a long-time subscriber I would have all the reprinted material so the only advantage would be to have them in one book rather than scattered through many years. Note: My Penn Western is now modeling 2015.
Received this GEM yesterday, and Absolutely loved the hints and tips as well as the articles on a modern railroad, NOT from today’s railroad (although, the many articles have facts in them), BUT FROM model railroaders themselves, about added touches to layouts, their own locomotives, rolling stock, and scenery.
Some photographs in this 82 page (not counting cover pages) are at first what I thought was the real thing, but ended up as pictures on layouts featured in this now favored booklet and NOT reprints from the monthly magazine.
Definitely HATS OFF to this Model Railroader Special Issue and the editors and staff as well as the owner/operators of the various scale layouts. An added plus to extending my subscription another 3 years!
Jerry Kramer
Willamette Regional Railway
“Where Southern Pacific bought out Union Pacific”
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I am a Model Railroader and Trains magazine subscriber, and I just flipped thru “How to Model Today’s railroads” at a local grocery store ; and can say definitely that this is just another compilation of old MR articles. I mean come on MR , I think there is enough original material out there to compile an original publication. yes you can have bits and pieces of former articles , but the guts of the magazine should be new. Very disappointed.
This was Ok, but as i tried to post in another review this is mainly new articles quite a few of them are pelles which are in many of the special issues and get boring after awhile.