Why does MR smell so bad?

[Anonymous]

Gentlemen, all you need to do is take a trip to the largest magazine shop in your area. You will find the odor of print paper and printers ink to be rather prevalent. I, for one, like the smell. I find myself opening my new MR to the center page and placing my nose right down by the center staple, folding the magazine up around my ears, and taking very deep breaths through my nose. The euphoric high is beyond description. Inhaling model railroader. Yes! Might it last forever!

Tom

[ham99]

No odor in my copies. Not even the ones dating back to 1958. However, the "blue stuff" mentioned above was probably hectograph copies, except it was usually kind of purple. It was also called a "ditto" machine. The mimeograph used black ink, but the original was typed on a blue wax-coated page. Both processes produced an odor, but the mimeograph was an unpleasant smell while the ditto/hectograph smelled strongly of alcohol. My students would always inhale deeply when I handed out a test. The mimeograph produced a permanent copy, but the ditto/hectograph copy would fade in time.

[Anonymous]

Ok, opening up the September 2004 issue right now.......hmmmm.....let's see......ok, right around the seal (binding) of the mag it smells strange, let's continue.....hmm...<sniff sniff>........Ok, the table of contents reaks...... page 18 smells bad...hmm......ah, page 25 with the Trix Big Boy add smells, expensive. Hmm, wonder why? Oh, the MSRP is $879.00[;)]. That explains that.......hmm......Page 69 with the add for the BLI E3& E6 smells horrible.......page 71 reaks...........page 89 about blew me over! AUGH!.......<sniff sniff>.......eeeeeww, the pages with the IHC adds smell awful (wonder why?[;)])......hmm........ otherwise I can't find anything else that smells.

[tomwatkins]

It smells like paper that has been printed on and then bound and mailed. Must be a magazine, huh.
Have Fun,
Tom Watkins

[Anonymous]

Mine don't smell like anything... I must be lucky...

[Anonymous]

Well, in the 8 years I have of reading MR, I've never encountered any foul smells, not even in the latest issue. Now, If we talk about vintage magazine smell... oh boy!

[Anonymous]

Laugh it up you silly guys. Anyone who is saying they don't stink simply hasn't gotten a stinky magazine. I've only exprerienced this stench in a couple magazines. I guarantee nobody would like the smell. It really reaks. I just thought it was funny that someone else brought it up.

[darth9x9]

Maybe it happens in certain batches (rolls) of paper. This could account for the randomness.

[Anonymous]

Well you never know what the MR magazine paper may have been used to wipe before it was recycled, It may have been little white round rolls of paper in a former life, Naw, shurely not.

Mac

[bruce22]

bcammack / tpaulsen gentlemen, gentlemen : some decorum please.

[krump]

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
This issue sticks
just like my shoe...

this topic is hilarious[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D], but they don't all smell bad. February's was pizza aroma. ... My issue smells like a magazine. Perhaps the magazines should be sold at a perfume shop... (the occasional magazine really does smell poorly, but I think that's true with newspapers and any other magazine also).
cheers

[Anonymous]

If they'd quit showing pictures of those smelly diesels and print more of the clean burning steam engines the mag wouldn't smell so bad. Look at all of the diesel facilities that they print - no wonder the mag smells.

Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY

Bob

[Anonymous]

Never thought such a topic would be worthy of posting, but the timing is amazing for me. Just last week while reading the latest MR, I noticed a rather strong smell that I assumed was the ink and paper. My first thought was that I remembered that that was how the magazine always smelled back in the mid 1970's when I'd first open it after a trip to the LHS to buy it. I was in high school then (which is to say, I was a bit younger then) but I haven't smelled that same smell coming from MR since I started regularly buying it again starting in the late 1990's. So I called my 10 yr old son over and ask him if he can smell it too. He said "Yes. But your train magazines always smell like that." My conclusion - I'm getting old and my sniffer just don't work like it used to. LOL

Greg

[cwclark]

I live in the Houston area too and have had issues smell pretty bad before..it smells like a cross between an insy belly button, old feet, and under arm BO

[Anonymous]

People , it is so simple, have you not all turned to page 78 of the August issue.

Need it say more except . . . Horny engine.

A sure fix is open up that page and 'mate' it with a nice open page from the latest Cosmo. One smell with offset the other (or maybe the Cosmo perfume smell will just excite the Horny one even more . . . oh well worth a try. I'll let you know the results when the tests come back.)