Last April, the Union Pacific 844 made a fifteen minutes stop in the town where my wife is the Librarian at the local Elementary school and several of the boys in the school showed a lot of interest in the train. We purchased some used train books and donated them to the library to see how the kids would like reading about and looking at trains. The books were a big hit for several of the kids and they asked for more books and magazines. That is where this particular magazine and many of my older MR’s come into play. I started to donate some of them and the kids absolutely went ballistic over the magazines. This one is so used already that I will have to donate many more.
This may be an answer to getting more kids into model railroading in the future and at the worst, it can’t hurt. After she told me of their enthusiasm and joy in looking at the model trains, I requested to see one after they had looked it over for a couple of weeks. Yikes. lI thought it might be good to see such a good reaction to the hobby by grade school kids and wanted to share it on the forum.
It only hurts when I look at the remains of the magazine.
Hm… I dont subscribe to MR right now but I remember the first time I picked one up. It was at the library as well. That night I checked out and read through the 8 or so issues they had on hand. I subscribed for like 5 or 6 years then stopped in 2008. I’ll probably renew my subscription sometime soon, I dont know for sure though.
Great to see there are school kids as obsessed with trains as I was/still am.
I know how them kids feel. The only non-childrens train item in the library I go to was an Amtrak guide with stations and timetables. It was published in '92 or '93. The three books I checked out, Industries Along the Tracks/Jeff Wilson, N Scale Model Railroading Getting Started In the Hobby/Marty McGuirk, and N Scale Model Railroad That Grows/Kent Wood all ad to taken out through inter library loan. The library loanee is about 30 miles away. I also checked out a prototype RR DVD on interlibrary loan but I forgot what RR it feautered.
That is a great idea and one that I was kicking around. Maybe MR would give a discount for a gift subscription to a school. The local library stopped their subscription to MR and Trains last year due to cost cuts.
