Is the magazine posted on this webpage the current issue , or last month’s ?
I went to Books a Million and they have the Aug issue and its not this one …It should be Sept. issue thats on the racks now,right ?
The one posted is the one that just came in the mail monday for me.
Ok, so I guessing its the Sept issue…
Thanks
Subscriber copies usually beat newstand copies by at least a week, often more. I generally don’t count on seeing a given month’s copy of any magazine on the newstand much before the 5th of the month (usually preceding - September issue on stand o/a August 5).
Beat the rush - subscribe. You won’t have to waste trips to the bookstore, and you’ll save money besides. Sure, it means having to come up with a bigger chunk of change all at once, but you won’t have to hope you’ve got enough cash in your pocket when the mag does hit the streets.
And go big, if you can. I just re-upped my “Trains” subscription for three years…
You’re a great American, Larry!
Over the course of a year, driving to the outlet to purchase each month’s TRAINS at newstand prices…surely will end up being somewhat more espensive than the subscription price to have it sent right to your residence. Add convience too.
I too am a very long {in time}, subscriber of said magazine.
Yep. Humble, too…
Careful, Larry; don’t be too conspicuous with your humility.[:)]
Johnny
I have already misplaced mine.
There was an article by Fred Frailey too…cant find the magazine anywhere, probably got packed up (I’m moving).
ed
Awesome! Andy! You just hit 100 posts!
TRAINS MAG is the best magazine ever published! I need to up my subscription as well. Andy, or anyone who knows, if I say, add 3 years to my subscription, will I get 2 for the same magazines each month until the end of this year? Or will it wait to kick in till next fiscal year?
Speaking of getting the September issue a little after the first of August, I remember when I was beginning to wonder as each month drew to its close if I would get the issue dated for a particular month in that month. I don’t remember for certain, but this may have been after Rosemary Entringer’s leaving. She was quite a gal; I had the pleasure of meeting her, in her office, in September of '68.
Johnny
Justin, all magazines that I know of add on, and do not send duplicate issues, when you renew. Of course, the earlier you renew, the better they can plan their production.
Johnny
ANDY:
I remember when Model Railroader offered a life-time subscription for $50.00,when it was still in diapers…
Did TRAINS ever do the same?[:-^]
Just curious if there are any of those early life-time subscriptions still active???
Wish I’d bought one of those, whatr a bargain![:-^]
Yes, and I never had the money to subscribe. It was all I could do to scrape up enough for one year at a time. Of course, all the magazine publishers who offered life subscriptions fifty and more years ago had no idea as to how inflation would zoom in the seventies.
Johnny
I remember the Model Railroader offering lifetimes for 100 bucks. Don’t remember TRAINS or Trains & Travel offering it. Man-oh-man I should have taken up MR on that offer.
I have copies of both MR and TRAINS in the small format. Think of the money I could have saved!!! GROAN.
You Guys are so right!
Back then fifty cents per issue was a stretch…If steamlocomotives had been ten cents apiece back then, all I could have done was run up, and down the tracks hollaring-“Ain’t that cheap!”[swg]
OH, WELL! The times they are a changin’[sigh]
I still wonder if Kalmbach is still delivering to one of those 50.00 life-time subscribers?
Group,
I only buy TRAINS when there’s an article in it that interest me (LIKE THE KCS) or stories piticular to TX or the SW,Im not into every short line and other RR’s of the NE…Thats mostly all I can see they talk about,I guess thats where the action is,just not my cup a tea…
Thanks for the info…
Indeed. I don’t read every article in every issue - some things just don’t interest me, either. But there is usually enough in just about every issue to make it worthwhile having - coast to coast and around the world.
And many of the things I enjoy about the magazine, like “Railroad Reading,” really don’t usually have a geographic quality about them - they could be about just about anywhere.
The same is true here on the forum. I don’t think I’ve read a single post in the “Sunset Route Double Tracking” thread, even though it’s been running for months and is up to twenty-some pages. I just don’t care about all that much about that route.
Trains had lifetime subscriptions available as well.
Kalmbach cancelled all lifetime subscriptions several decades ago, they weren’t honored.
Leo —
Not sure who told you this, but I did some checking and can assure you it’s flat-out untrue. I wasn’t able to get a hold of circulation to find out exactly how many lifetime subscriptions remain, but there are a handful, and those individuals continue to get TRAINS every month for free.
Best,