Did you get your copy? Hope you enjoy it! We had a great time putting it together!
Be sure to join us for our 75th anniversary party in Milwaukee. Details below. See you there! Jim
mine has not yet arrived!
Nor has mine–though it may have been delivered today and my daughter will bring it to me tomorrow.
Or, it is so special that it took longer to put together and to print?
I seem to get mine about three days after everyone else. [:'(]
I’d usually have mine by the 1st, but not this time. Looking forward to reading it.
Maybe he can hand me one in Minneapolis on Sunday or Monday.
Not yet. Hurry up!
Mine was delivered to the house yesterday and my daughter brought it down this morning.
My arrived USPS on 10/1 (Thursday) Have scanned it, briefly… Lots of information to contemplate! Can’t wait to sit down and dig in. [:-^]
I received mine yesterday (10/1). So far, very nice!
I particuraly enjoyed the 75 item RR “bucket list”. I could count about 10 as “been there, done that”.
Mine arrived in KS on the 1st. Will get into it tonight.
Got it today. Looks like it’s going to be very interesting.
Got it today.
I hope that Lackawanna Alco is preserved. And sad to see Union Pacific dumping a lot of MP15’s.
Haven’t read anything else yet except the locomotive section and that story about the HH660.
Mine’s probably waiting at home for me. I tried to find it at a couple of news stands up here, but the “Land of No Trains” seems to also be the Land of No (Current) Trains at the moment.
[:D]I got my trains on Sept.30.
Mine came Thurs. 01 Oct. via the USPS, a/k/a Pony Express (but not via the Railway Mail Service !!!).
Generally very good. A couple quibbles* (of course !), but more about most of those later.
*John Kneiling on pg. 56 - none of his ideas ever “took the industry by storm” !
What’s scary is that I’ve been reading it for just over 50 years now . . . Some kind soul donated his collection to our elementary (!) school library, and I and 2 others were hooked.
Have we ever done a “Favorite Issue” thread here ? If not, maybe we should.
I love the “Number 195 in a series” - the content, format, and the tongue-in-cheek presentation, buried back on page 104 in the 3rd column without any fanfare about it.
Mr. Wrinn, I still think DPM was one-of-a kind and that we’ll not see his kind come this way again - but you outdid yourself with this issue and especially the “From the Editor” introduction in the front. Well done, and thank you.
MC - wish I could be there with you. Maybe next year - new employer is a lot more receptive to those kind of things for my PDH’s.
- Paul North.
I am glad a David Plowden photograph was chosen to be included in this special issue.
Dave Nelson
Still waitin’. I thought Trains was venerable when I read the 25th anniversary issue! (Now I think we’re both venerable.)
Really enjoy the added length. Too bad that all issues do not break the century mark.
We’re home…still no issue (I often wonder whether there are railfans at the post office–which is across the road from the tracks). Come tomorrow night, I might panic!
The first issue of Trains I ever saw (my dad got it for me) was the 20th anniversary issue: November 1960. I started buying it for myself in June 1962, had a subscription a year after that, then bought a three-year subscription, then a lifetime subscription. Since I paid $75 for a lifetime subscription, I’m usually paid back about once a year now, based on cover prices.
Hard to believe that a lot of the staff wasn’t even born yet when Rosemary Entringer was cracking the whip…