After reading a number of posts I got curious - How many of the Trains.com forum members have subscriptions to Model Railroader magazine? So let’s start a little, informal survey.
Do you currently have a subscription to Model Railroader magazine?
If yes, how long have you had your subscription?
If no, why not?
Please keep the replies short. As a matter of clarification, picking up the occasional copy at the LHS does NOT count as a subscription.
There are a lot of individuals on this forum, curious as to how many actually support the company that provides this space with a subscription to their product.
Yes, coming up on a year now. I purchased it for several years back in the mid seventies and before I decided on which mag to purchase,(between MR and Railroad Modeller, I believe was the name), life changed and the layout got put away. I’ve recently got back into it alittle over a year and a half ago and one of the first things I did was buy MR, shortly after I subscribed. That reminds me I need to renew.
I have been an off and on subscriber for years. I didn’t subscribe for many years because subscription delivery in my area was typically 7 to 10 days later than availability at the hobby shop. I started subscribing again to get access to all the additional content on the website. I have purchased every copy of MR since my first one in January of 1965 when I was thirteen years old!
My subscription just expired. In a money saving effort I’m not going to renew, I’ll thumb through them at Barnes and Noble and decide if I’m interested enough in the issue to purchase it.
I’m looking at a wall of bookshelves which support, among other things, Model Railroader magazines dating back to 1948. I became a subscriber something over a half-century ago, and have no intention of dropping that subscription.
I admit that I’m a poor customer for the ‘compiled article’ books that KalPubCo is producing now - I already have the original articles.
I did not subscribe until about a 15 months ago. My LHS saved every copy of MR and RMC until I was able to get in to pick them up. When the owner became very ill and eventually passed away I was forced to subscribe. I am a big believer in supporting my LHS.
Me too, but I read here a while back that the retail profit margin on a copy of MR is pretty small. It’s more to get customers to come into the shop. If you’re going there regularly anyway, buy trains where they make more money.
I’ve subscribed for the last 3 years. The first two, I had a really good online discount from a magazine broker site. Those have gone away now, and I almost didn’t re-subscribe. I’m glad I did, though, because I think the magazine has improved substantially since the latest editorial / managerial change.
I’ve not ever been a subscriber in the sense of ordering the catalogues and having them dropped off at my doorstep. When I was a kid, I would regularly buy a copy at my LHS. Now that I’m an adult and really just getting back into MRR-ing, I’ve gone back to buying a copy every month at the store (speaking of which, its time to buy the newest one). The wife and I have talked about getting me a subscription, but everytime we talk about it, we don’t have the funds, nor do we think about it when we do have the funds…so yeah, I subscribe, just non-traditionally.
I have been a subscriber of MR since 1972. I also have all but about 5 issues of MR back to 1950 plus many of 1947-1949. I have subscribed to RMC and the NMRA Bulletin, through all it name changes, for the same time.