There is a photo of a Fairbanks-Morse H16-66 on page 69,but the trestle article says it is a H-16-44.After 30 years of reading MR I spotted my first error.What do you think of the 18 carat gold Marklin loco on page 119 ? Only $3,792.50 for a three engine set. Joe G.
Hi Joe,
Wow!!!..and I thought I got my money’s worth out of the MR Mag. Even after you showed me what to look for I still had some difficulty finding that gold loco set. I will have to think a little before I order it. HEHE[:D]
Richard
Chance are that a number of fellow modelers caught that error and are letting the MRR staffers know. Might not be a bad idea for you to e-mail them and let them know, in case know one has. Probably in the August or September issue, they’ll print a correction.
I’ve been reading MRR since the 70s; and though they try their best, I’ve seen them make some “woo-woos” from time to time.
Antonio, woo----woo’s??? [(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]
If its taken you 30 years to find an error in any of the RR’ing magazines, you haven’t been paying very close attention.
Dave H
AMEN brother! [:D]
Used to be one of my favorite parts of MR was the “Symposium on Electronics” column. (Bring it back,please!) They used to explain basic electronic circuits for driving LED flashers, signals, switch machines, etc. BUT, I always waited a month or so until MR printed a correction. Seems the editors or artists would alway miss something, and I would fry something building the circuit. [:0] My favorite woo-woo (Antonio’s term) is the mislabeling of scene photos. Inexplicably moving towns hundreds of miles with a single caption![(-D]
To their credit, MR is better than RMC, at least with printing corrections. Once I saw a picture of the team tracks in my hometown in RMC, labeled as someplace in Maine. I sent them an identical snapshot with a note, never heard a peep from them, or anything in the mag.[V]
Some years ago MR had a drawing showing a dragging equipment detector – the drawing showed the shaft holding the baffles being on top of rather than beneath the rails – yes that would create some dragging equipment I would imagine.
Dave Nelson
As a Pennsy modeler I laugh out loud every time IHC runs their GG1 set ad showing a G wih rugged snow capped mountains in the background and NO catenary. You gotta wonder sometimes.
That IHC ad is a hoot. What’s even funnier is that they’ve been running it for years! I no longer recall what outfit ran an ad with a steam locomotive and tender, and the tender was backwards. Presumably the fireman would scoop up the coal, crawl over the coal pile and water hatch of the tender, climb down the ladder, and toss the (remaining) coal into the firebox.
This is off topic but as a kid (so we are talking early 1960s) I used to have vivid dreams of seeing a GG1 be towed to scrap on the line near my house – not likely since that was in South Milwaukee WI on the C&NW’s passenger main line! But the dreams were very real. And after all a GG1 must have run on the CNW to get to the Illinois Railroad Museum and likely ran on the CNW to get to the National RR Museum in Green Bay. So I guess my childhood dream was not so far fetched after all.
And let’s not forget the famous Calif Zephyr publicity shot that existed in two versions – the train in flatland Illinois and the very same photo with snow capped mountains superimposed in the background.
It is interesting to think of a GG1 running on the Milwaukee Road or Great Northern mountain electric lines (assuming electrical compatability). And the Pennsy did get some of the GN electrics cheaply in the late 1950s-- too slow for mainline Pennsy freights but used as pushers.
Dave Nelson