Recognize your first issue?

[Cobrabob8]

I have every issue from the very start. I knew a good thing when I saw it!!!!
Cobrabob

And no, they are not for sale!!

[balidas]

Don't really remember my first issue, but it had to be sometime in '04 while I was building a layout for public display. I would go to the bookstore and read through the mag and would only buy it if there was information of interest to me, so I didn't buy one every month.

I'll have to look through my collection and see the earliest one I bought.

[Civil War]

My subscription started in 2008 so I am kind of new but have been buying back issues on ebay. I now have most of the issues. A few holes to fill in yet. Just ordered the first three issues. Love them all.

[wrmcclellan]

I have been a subscriber since I picked up the Fall 1987 Premier Issue at the local train store. Richard Kughn was on the cover and his collection was one of the articles.

[Texas Pete]

I just checked my piles and it was the Spring 1989, Chuck Brasher was the cover boy. What a layout!

Pete

 

[Penny Trains]

Chuck Brasher was on the cover, I'd never heard of Standard Gauge before.

Becky

[cwburfle]

Thats easy. The premier issue had an article on the invention of Lionel smoke.

[nickaix]

With the CTT index online now, I thought it would be interesting to see at what point in the "run" other forum members "got on board".  What are the oldest articles you can remember reading in CTT?

I'm pretty sure my first issue (well, dad's really) was June of 1989. I remember the bead-board shelving and storage bag articles from that one. (The September issue that year is one of my favorites--still a "reading room" standard after 20+ years )

What about you?