I got my very first issue of train mag in the mail today. Yea I finally signed up for that cause I keep missing out on all of the cool stuff they have in their mag’s OH well that’s bout it from over here.
Hey, now you can get the TRAINS newswire!
Congratulations! I broke down and started subscribing about 10 years ago after buying individual issues at various hobby shops since 1967 (didn’t miss an issue, either). Subscriptions are a lot easier and appreciably cheaper and you know that you will get the next issue for certain.
Thanks so much for becoming a subscriber! All of us here work hard to put out the best magazine we can.
I got my first issue when I was 15 years old (a 1-year subscription as a birthday present), but I never dreamed I’d be working here one day. It’s been a great ride!
Thanks again for signing on with us.
Matt Van Hattem
Senior Editor
Welcome aboard! I’ve been a subscriber since I was 10. My first subscription issue was January, 1962. EMD’s demonstrator GP30 5629 was the cover girl. My, my, my. so many issues, and so much knowledge space wasted on this, rather than…[V]“(T)he things they told me about at school.” (“Won’t get Fooled Again”, the Who)
You will enjoy it and all the others, for years. Congrats!
I was doing some rearranging for my bride, and came across a fist full of oldies out my stash, and moved a fist full down to the “library” where they would be handy, and to be able to read while otherwise occupied.[;)] The first one I picked up was March 1962, it was the First “All Diesel Issue” with a picture on the cover of a Rock Island “Rocket”, [an EMD product vintage about 1937]. One of the pleasures of these old magazines, is “wondering what ever happend to…?” An add on page 13 is for Krauss-Maffei, Munchen,Germany. For the 4000hp diesel-hydraulics they sold to DRG&W, and SP.
Kinda neat to wander around in the past and in the present as the whim allows.[swg]
Welcome to the show! I hope you’ll enjoy gettign them as much as we enjoy producing them for you. Best, Jim Wrinn, Editor
Sam, I’d be willing to bet that the first All-Diesel issue was May 1962! (Funny how I remember details from back then, but can’t remember the cover on last month’s.)
Being the Dutchman that I am, I realized within about a year that scraping together enough money for a multi-year subscription would be a good investment. And, much to the chagrin of my parents and the bemused smiles of everyone else, I spent valuable money on a lifetime subscription. At the time, I projected that it would pay for itself when I was about 35 or so. With inflation it took less time than that–and I think I live another lifetime about every two years now!