Trains.com

1st. Garden Railroad Issue ??

3303 views
11 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    April 2002
  • From: Wisconsin
  • 1,839 posts
Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:50 AM

Doublecross--Kalmbach is just starting to offer some of our magazines as DVD sets. Trains released 70 years on DVD just before the holidays and it's selling great. Model Railroader is now looking to create a DVD set.

GR may offer a set in the future, but there's nothing in the works at the moment.

Rene Schweitzer

Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader

  • Member since
    March 2011
  • 1 posts
Posted by DeLloyd's Doublecross on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 6:44 AM

Hello Rene S, are there any plans for GR to creat disks with all of the old mags included?  National Geographic has done this and ist's really quite nice.

  • Member since
    April 2002
  • From: Wisconsin
  • 1,839 posts
Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:37 PM

Train Yard--I am not familiar with this title. It was not part of GR's history.

 

Finescale/Outdoor Railroader--Kalmbach purchased GR in early 1996. It was a few years later that Kalmbach began distributing (not publishing) the then Outdoor Railroader. (Kalmbach distributes a number of other magazines that we don't publish.) Outdoor changed their name to Finescale Railroader, then eventually stopped publishing a magazine and now Westlake, their owner, publishes two beefy annuals per year instead.

Rene Schweitzer

Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader

  • Member since
    November 2008
  • 15 posts
Posted by bearcreek on Monday, February 14, 2011 4:57 PM

Thanks  Rene;

Now I do remember the newsletters.

F.B.

  • Member since
    December 2007
  • From: Monterey Peninsula, Calif.
  • 160 posts
Posted by Independent Operator on Monday, February 14, 2011 8:40 AM

Rene,

Did Train Yard that I mentioned early in this thread somehow evolve into GR Mag also?   Just curious because the format is so similar.

 

Rene S

Yes, you do have the first issue of the magazine! The magazine derived from Marc's newsletter, called the Sidestreet Banner.

RUDY JAGER, CEO OF THE LONE WOLF RAILROAD 

TRUST ME--I USED TO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT!

  • Member since
    April 2002
  • From: Wisconsin
  • 1,839 posts
Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Monday, February 14, 2011 8:34 AM

Yes, you do have the first issue of the magazine! The magazine derived from Marc's newsletter, called the Sidestreet Banner.

Rene Schweitzer

Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader

  • Member since
    November 2008
  • 15 posts
Posted by bearcreek on Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:00 PM

Thanks Dennis. So I must have the very 1st issue. It has a total of  16 pages including front and back cover. An Editorial by Marc Horovitz, Article by Peter Jones and center spread ( pages 8-9) called Notes from the DANDY LINES. The price was $2.25

Thanks;

F.B.

  • Member since
    December 2006
  • From: Chatham, Ont
  • 116 posts
Posted by DennisB on Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:45 PM

I have in my possesion a copy of the 10th Anniversary issue, It features the first 2 1/3 pages of Garden Railways first issue. The date is Jan-Feb 1984. Regards, Dennis.

  • Member since
    June 2008
  • From: N. California & Nevada
  • 448 posts
Posted by g. gage on Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:12 PM

My oldest handy issue of Garden Railways is May-June 1992, which is about when I started in “G” gauge. This issue has a feature article on building the Woodland Railway by Jim Strong with photo credits by Kevin Strong. Jim states, “The Woodland Railway has been a passion of mine for the past 12 years.”

 

Have fun, Rob

  • Member since
    November 2008
  • 15 posts
Posted by bearcreek on Saturday, February 12, 2011 3:40 PM

I am not Familiar with Train Yard, but I have Issues of a Magazine called Outdoor Railroader Published by Westlake Publishing Company.  The oldest Issue I have was AUG./SEP. 1992. I believe it went to the wayside after Kalmbach purchased Garden Railroad Magazine.

  I wonder if Kalmbach could shed some light to this??

F.B.

  • Member since
    December 2007
  • From: Monterey Peninsula, Calif.
  • 160 posts
Posted by Independent Operator on Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:34 AM

I went out to my garage where I keep all old issues.  The oldest I have is from 1990.  After rummaging through the GR mags and a bunch of OSH yearly Train Calenders I did stumble onto something interesting.  It's a magazine called Train Yard published by On Track Productions from Laguna Hills, CA.  This issue is Vol. 1 #4, Nov-Dec 1991.  I only have the one issue and don't recall what happened to future issues.  Now I'm wondering whatever happened with Train Yard.  Did GR buy them out as it has a very similar look to it like GR?

bearcreek

I am indexing all of my GR Magazines and I would like to know which was the very first issue. My oldest issue is January-February 1984 that I purchased at  Sidestreet Bannerworks in Denver CO. After that I purchased my copies from Caboose Hobbies and then from Kalembach when they purchased GR.

Anny Hystory would be apreciated.

 

F.B.

RUDY JAGER, CEO OF THE LONE WOLF RAILROAD 

TRUST ME--I USED TO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT!

  • Member since
    November 2008
  • 15 posts
1st. Garden Railroad Issue ??
Posted by bearcreek on Friday, February 11, 2011 8:46 PM

I am indexing all of my GR Magazines and I would like to know which was the very first issue. My oldest issue is January-February 1984 that I purchased at  Sidestreet Bannerworks in Denver CO. After that I purchased my copies from Caboose Hobbies and then from Kalembach when they purchased GR.

Anny Hystory would be apreciated.

 

F.B.

Search the Community

FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Get the Garden Railways newsletter delivered to your inbox twice a month

By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Garden Railways magazine. Please view our privacy policy