Face it, Carl–we’re getting on in years.
I wish I had had the $75.00 way back when.
My issue arrived on Friday and I am finding it both fascinating and frightening. Fascinating because railroading is always fascinating and frightening because it seems like it wasn’t that long since I got the 35th anniversary issue with SP 4449 as a recurring theme.
Got mine today. OOOOOOOOOOO!!!
It’s a keeper! This one is NOT going to the recycle bin or the mag rack at the gym!
Trains! You have outdone yourselves. It is simply on of the best issues you have ever published. Your map of Milwaukee to Chicago passenger service was the best map I have ever seen in any magazine. I have many fond memories of riding both the Milwaukee Road and C&NW over the years before Amtrak between Milwaukee and Chicago. My biggest regret was never riding an Electroliner.
I really miss the first person accounts of riding passenger trains that David P Morgan and George Drury wrote. David S Thomson brought back those fond memories.
As for your bucket list; I think you may have missed Grand Dad’s Bluff in LaCrosse Wisconsin and the DM&IR line between Proctor Minnesota and the ore docks in Duluth. It was fabulous during steam and even today with DM&IR being part of CN, the passage of trains is unforgetable. Needless to say there are more than 75 great places to watch trains in 2015.
Being from the west I would have included the Keddie Bridge as a place to see.
[?] Diningcar, I wonder where Icould find an issue of April 1948 Trains Mag. I think it has an article about Valve gears of different kind. I had that issue but it must have Vaporised. Does the Index go that far back?
Respectfully, Cannonball
cannonball, greretings from KS. I have move for family reasons so no longer live near you. Sorry I cannot help ith your question.
Finally, it arrived today. Impressive-looking; I hope I’ll get the chance to curl up with it soon.
I’m still waiting for my copy to show up.[^o)]
I do have my father-in-law’s copy of the first issue of Trains - I’m pretty sure he was a charter subscriber. I missed the 25 year anniversary issue by about a year and a half, my first issue was June 1967.
- Erik
The speed of the Lombad PO. Mine arrived today as well. Haven’t had much time to spend with it yet.
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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.
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Kneling did predict the unit-train economic benefit to freight railroads. Amittadly it “took the industry by storm” only after a lapse of about 25-30 after his advocacy. I really loved the guy for the all the wondeful fantrips he arranged while I was still in highschool, and they were affordable also.
I just have to wait for my copy, but I look forward to it.
(1) Personally handed to me Monday afternoon.
(2) and yes, he read the forum replies (photo posted to prove #1 as a light dig.)
Possibly the November 1947 issue instead ?
“How the Walschaerts valve gear works - with drawing” by Strassman, David A., from Trains, November 1947, pg. 26
(Magazine Index “keywords”: gear steam technical valve walschaerts )
Link to ‘thumbnail’ of the cover and a Table of Contents for the Nov. 1947 issue:
http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=ViewIssue&issueId=5682
Same for the April 1948 issue:
http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=ViewIssue&issueId=5687
- Paul North.
My copy showed up today, nicely done. With any luck, I might last long enough to read the 100th anniversary issue.
Just got mine today (I was away).
No. 9 of the “75 places you must see” was Bozeman Pass. Part of the description says, “Lewis and Clark came through here.” Only 50 percent correct. Clark, yes, Lewis no. On the westward trip they stayed together and did not traverse Bozeman Pass; on the eastward trip, they split up (and rendezvoused at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers) with Lewis going north along the Marias River and Cut Bank Creek (Camp Disappointment) before continuing east along the Missouri. Clark did go over Bozeman Pass and then along the Yellowstone.
OK, how come Cardiff gets one day better service than San Diego? Mags must have been on a loose-car journey to the coast.
I was a little surprised to see Tom Hoback’s name included in the list of 75 names we must know, while people who have had a far more significant involvement in the big picture were left off.
Nothing against Hoback, I’m sure he is a fine person, but this left me wondering if Fred Frailey’s apparent man-crush on Hoback had everything to do with this?
I was wondering the same.
I’m wondering if the magazines are sent out in order of ZIP code - Cardiff is 92007, while San Diego is 921xx. Would explain why we got ours after the rest of the country got theirs. [:D]
Did have a bit of fun using the 1940 Chicago to Milwaukee map to look up a couple of incidents reported in Middleton’s “The Interurban Era”.
- Erik
No, the 75th annual (November 2015) has not arrived and neither has the November Model Railroader. This is unusual for the 12th of the month, almost 2 weeks late.