This is just a post to say - I LOVE TRAINS MAG.
It’s the only magazine i actually read the whole way through, it is so full of facts and figures that are real. “I LOVE IT” as i am sure you all do as well.
Me too…
BTW, [#welcome] to the forums.
Aw, you guys are sweet.
The cool thing is, TRAINS mag loves its readers, too!
If there’s something you don’t see that you’d like to, or if you have ideas for stories, please don’t be shy. Let us know what you’d like and we’ll do what we can to get it into the pages.
Welcome to the forum!!
Kathi
The man has it right!![tup][tup]
&[#welcome], ALSO!
[#ditto][#ditto][#ditto]
thanks for the welcoming guys.
trainhooked: I’m curious. We tend to find a reason to chuckle each month, about who got their Trains Magazine when. In Australia, when do you usually get the magazine?
For Trains mag i picked up the April Edition in May
and
For Model Railroader i picked up the May edition in May
So i guess you could guestimate aproximately a one month’s delay.
Actually, that’s more than a two month delay. Most of us are getting the July edition of Trains this weekend.
…Rec’d several mags. this past Saturday so just had quick thumb thru of my new TRAINS issue. I dare say, it looks very interesting…And to me, it seems to have a lot of good and interesting photos this time.
Good pic of Kathi too. Looks like it will require lots of reading regarding the extensive articles on the local operations, etc…Liked the {B&W}, photo of the Pennsylvania steam switcher with the sloped tender…Somehow, that seems to be almost an icon for the old Pennsy.
Kathi: On subjects for upcoming issues…Some photos and info on abandoned routes, etc…Not necessarily long articles of data but references to what one might be looking at.
Kathi, see what I mean, lots of TRAINS readers have an interest in things “going or gone” or “old and out of service”. There may be a consistent thread here.
Kathi,
I would like to see more stories about modern, class 1 railroads with a focus on operations. It seems Trains covers the Transcon pretty well (October 2004, BNSF Reborn), but what about other lines? The October 04’ article covered the traffic and operations on the line and included a 24 hour count in New Mexico, and that article is still my favorite Trains story - even after 3 years! I remember old stories about the NS Automotive Artery, and Nickel Plate line in the east, and I think it is time for a new look at these always-changing lines, as well as the dozen’s of other mainlines across America.
Thanks for reading,
Tyler
I don’t know. I was always under the impression that the Pennsy always built quality equipment.[swg]
…Guess I don’t follow…why wouldn’t these littel switchers be as quality as others. My memory, shows these little switchers working all around the industrial areas served by Pennsy.
I don’t know, Jay–the sloped top was unusual, but not so slopped or sloppy!
…Uh oh…an undetected spelling boo boo…The sloped tender configuration was for convenience to the crew and visibility.
Now have we been approved by the critics…
Q
Don’t forget, this critic is the guy who refered to to those old passenger cars with glass tops as doom cars. [:I]
…I forgive you.
Nothing to forgive, Q–I live for moments like that! We only go for the most understandable and understanding targets, not the doofi who honestly can’t spell.