About the 20th of each month I start watching the forum masthead looking for the cover from the upcoming issue to change. This usually gives me about six or seven days lead time. Well, here it is the 29th of the month and the cover from the April issue is still being displayed. Looks like the May issue’s gonna be just a little late coming.
New issue is now on the masthead, so maybe we will get new issue soon. Running a little late it appears.
novice,
Nope, that’s the April issue that R.T. is referring to.
Tom
Go to “Our Magazine” above, and go to Current Issue…its listed there…they have not yet updated the opening mastheads yet.
Right! When I go to the “current issue” it does show the May issue but that’s not the one on the masthead and that’s the one I’ve been looking for!
Cody, could you please get with David and Neil and resolve this situation. Thank you.
It pains me to even look at the Black Stag layout plan. In a huge room many of us would “kill for,” the track radius is just 18 inches. Also, the layout is filled with “spaghetti-bowl” routes with much hidden track, so trains pop out who knows where. And did you ever see a layout with so many tunnels (I lost count at 30 portals)? Forget the fact that tunnels were extremely rare for logging railroads. Please spare me.
Mark
They kinda also tended to avoid bridges of any kind when at all possible. There are enough timber trestles on the layout to denude a sizeable forest. And I thought the whole purpose of a logging railroad was to get the timber to market and not to build trestles so the railroad could go farther into the woods to cut more timber to build more trestles to get the track farther into the woods to get more timber to build…
You get the idea.
Andre
On the other hand are scenes where the logging railroads literally filled a small canyon with logs to build a bridge. Cut timbers would have probably reduced the amount of wood needed by 95 percent!
You might be interested in this, Mark. It’s about the building of Beardsley Dam on the Stanislaus. Footage of Pickering Lumber trains included.
http://vodpod.com/watch/160097-building-beardsley-dam-part-1
Mike
Great film, Mike. Love that mid-twentieth century construction equipment. … That tracked loader is something I’ve never seen before. The bucket is loaded from the front of the machine and then lifted over to be dumped to the rear. So, unlike a frontloader, the machine doesn’t need to be turned between loading and unloading. I want a model!
Mark
Either way they’re running late this month. Usually by now I have the entire issue read. I’m not sure it MR is having problems with the printerd or shippers but this is second time in like four months its been late in the mail. I’m not complaining, just observing. But due to the tittle I have a feeling some MR staffers may look at this post so I will right a suggestion/request. A special issue or feauture article that follows the process of the making a magazine, from the pulp production to the mail delivery, and how to model it. MR did build a paper mill for the WSOR Troy branch so they already have that portion modeled. A rehash of the model construction, perhaps with greater details, would be nice.
The May issue was showing on my computer when I wrote that. Maybe I am just special LOL.
Got mine up in the Great White North yesterday, Monday the 29th. Only about 14 days later than last month, but just about right on time for me. I haven’t had time to even take the wrapper off as yet, so I don’t even know what is in it.
Happy reading all.
Blue Flamer.
EDIT. Spelling.
Ooooops. Teacher would be upset and would have rapped my knuckles back in the '50’s.
B. F.
Yours comes in a wrapper? I and presumably others living in the USA have their MR shipped “undressed” and unprotected.
REALLY?!? Why are our friends north of the border so special? About the only thing I can pull off of mine is the mailing label.
I havent got mine yet, but the last issues have come in a plastic wrapper so the mailing sticker isnt placed on my mag
I haven’t gotten anything yet.
Not MR, not Trains, not even the Walthers Flyer. Nada. They’re all usually here by now.
Arrived today (3-31) in eastern Pa. - about the same time as usual
Its a “community standards” thing. Model Railroader is quite a provocative magazine and has been implicated before on a number of occasions for inducing succeptible men-- and occasionally women-- into doing all manner of things with wood, glue and twisty bits of metal strands. Sadly, it is often true that people so afflicted are routinely caught at all hours of the day and night bending and grunting and screwing everything in sight down. And then, perhaps in a momentary glimpse of lucidity or else maybe a final spate of deperation, they try to cover up their nocturnal handiwork with anything they can find such as newspapers, screening wire, or even-- in extreme cases-- plaster-soaked rags. If you encounter one of these unfortunate individuals, I would recommend interaction with caution as they have been known to expell pink foam from their mouths and gesticulate excitedly.
One recent report of such an encounter described the individual using cryptic codes such as “Double Crossover”, “Hidden Staging”, “Double Helix” and other terms that can mean only god knows what. Apparently there are even semi-secret commercial establishments that cater to such people and produce ellusive products that are designed to whip these folks into a frenzy. Strange devices such as the fantasmic “Ewe-Pea Big Boy”, or the fabled “En-Why-See Hudson”, or the mysterious and vaporous “Pen-See Gee-Gee-Won”. Its rumored that some individuals will line up and eagerly open their wallets for the privilege of waiting, literally for years, to receive their c