What do you do with your old Model Railroader Magazines?

[Anonymous]

I would be interested in selling my whole 57-year collection [ Sept 1947-now], if the right offer came in.
May be of interest mainly to Ontario, Canada, due to the sheer weight & volume of the magazines.
Interested parties are welcome to email me.
regards;
Mike Robertson.

[Anonymous]

I keep em.[:D]
They spend up to 12 months in a bookcase in the "library".
Then they get boxed by year and put on shelves in the basement. Indexes aare placed in the top of the box for easy hunting!

[Anonymous]

Usually just keep them all on one shelf. In any order? no, but I don't have a very large collection.

[Junctionfan]

Shelf them; you never know when you will really need to consult the oracle. Model Railroader is small enough it can get in the way no more than a book which would equall about 5 or 6 of them.

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JPM335

i used to have about 70 of them. But "one who shall not be named" threw them away.[censored][censored][censored][censored][censored][censored]

Oh, you mean your EX?!

[n2mopac]

I make an index of article that I know will be of particular help in my own modeling/layout building on my computer. Then I file them away. I have been subscribing for 10 years now, so I am now starting to pull out the issue from 10 years ago each month and re-browse it.
Ron

[Anonymous]

I keep the ones that I can uses. The others I give them to the kid down the street. Who just love them. He all ways at my back door every saturday morning to run trains

[Anonymous]

I have all of my train and model railroad magazines(CTC BOARD,PACIFIC RAIL NEWS,RAIL NEWS,MRJ,MRing,TRAINS,MR RMC,RAILROAD/RAILFAN,and various others) in air tight plastic containers,in numerical - year order. Once I get an issue,I tape the seam so that it does not tear from the staple parts,catalog it in a notebook,read it,then put it in my collection for later reference and use.Then when someone has a question,or is looking for a certain article or subject, I can pull it out,write a note to the person requesting the info,make a copy,and send it to them.The only thing I charge for is just the copy cost. If anyone is looking for a specific article,or subject,let me know,I may have it.

[Anonymous]

When we lived in a smaller place which also had no room for a layout I had an agreement with my wife that when we hit 1980, for example, I would discard all the train mags from the 70s. Now that I have room for a layout, the magazines are stored under the layout so they don't take up any additional room. I'm happy and she doesn't complain about the accumulation of "train books".

[BentnoseWillie]

I archive 'em - I have MR back to around 1986 with few gaps, something between half and three-quarters of RMC for the same period, and a scattering of Trains, R&R, MRG, and RMJ, plus others. I also have Canadian Railway Modeller going back to the beginning off and on.

They're mainly stored in detergent boxes and I go through them twice or three times a year to put them back in order. [:)]

[Anonymous]

Stack 'em on the bathroom counter, near the throne, so I always have reading material. The wife keeps moving them, though. I thought women would know by now that the bathroom is like a home office. Why are they so slow to learn?

[trainfan1221]

I keep everything, though my method of "filing" leaves something to be desired.