I been getting this thing on the site said, You have 5 views remaining on the Site. Click here to learn more about Unlitied Membership?? What is going on with Trains Website?? I getting tired see this on the site about unlitied membership and i have 5 views remaining. Is Trains getting try more money from people?? I been on this websites since 2001 and getting Trains Mag since the 90s.[:(!]
Isn’t this just for Newswire articles and other stuff that used to be paywalled anyway?
Me too. Have not yet been able to read the Siemans Charger - Amtrak piece, because I “have 0 views remaining,” yet am greeted by name at the top of the page and get no result when I click on “Sign In.”
You do have to sign-in to the web site to read the articles once your free article allotment runs out. It has been that way for a while now (several months) since they rolled out the new web site, and maybe even before that.
I believe if you are a print subscriber, you will have access to the new articles as part of that subscription. I think there may be some premium content that requires an additional fee, but not entirely sure about that. I just know I have a print subscription and I can read all the news articles once I sigin in.
Note that the web site user name/ password is NOT the same as your forum user name/ password.
Trains Mags need too fix this stuff Now??
Doesn’t sound like anything is broken. If you have a magazine subscription, you’re in. It costs money to run a site like this.
I haven’t seen anything that links my subscription to anything in Kalmbach’s on line offerings.
If you have a magazine subscription, then you can read the Newswire articles (if you’re signed in). Beyond that, you must have the Unlimited Membership to read anything once your allotment of freebies has been used up.
If you get Classic Trains, you can see Picture of the Day without the Unlimited.
Like you, I show signed in under my name at the top, but still am blocked from this one article. None of the hypertext seem to link to anything. It only seems to happen for random articles.
Use of another browser tends to reset your count.
You can also try “private mode” as well.
Been a subscriber since 1972. Even when signed in there is at least one newswire article every day that I can’t open. Really annoying.
This happens to me periodically as well. For me at least, signing out then signing back in can usually “fix” this.
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I have a sub to Classic Trains and I still get the “you have “blank number” of views” remaining on my Classic Trains emails.
I have a multi-year subscription to the previous extended MR subscription that included MR Video Plus. Even though I paid for that service, half of the MR videos are now locked against me. 
Hahaha. I even tried using their customer support form and it twice failed. So I used the email address they provided instead and it was bounced. What a joke.
I work in IT support. I would have been fired years ago for this level of quality.
I’ve tried to sign up for the newsletter but after changing email providers, it’s just not possible. “Unable to register” it says. I’ve given up on it. I’ve been subscribing to Trains for at least 10 years so I don’t understand the problem.
And at one point we actually had a Kalmbach staffer tell us that situation would be fixed ‘by the weekend’… years and years ago, now.
They need too fix all the problem on this website Now?? Not Years from Now.
In the 19 years I have been a member they fix old problems to make new ones. Be careful what you ask for.
Geez guys. Kalmbach makes this forum available at no charge …