December issue of MR

[cwclark]

Well the boys in Milwaukee pulled of an excellent issue of MR this month!.. especially the article on freight yard design and operation...good job guys!...Chuck[:D]

[n2mopac]

I just pulled mine out of the mailbox (I've been out of town and its been sitting there since Saturday), so I havn't seen much yet. But I turned immediately to that yard design article and browsed over it. Looks great. Isn't it interesting though how most of the features in MR lately become an advertisement to sell another Kalmbach product/book. Not trying to be critical, but if this mindset becomes too ingrained it could limit future content of the mag. Just a thought guys.

Ron

[Anonymous]

Yes I do have to agree that the yard design article was great.What I am surprised with is how fast the trains and MR got into my mailbox.Here I was expecting it to come today ( Nov. 1),and I got mine on Saturday. Great job at Kalmbach,and at Quad Graphics for printing it fast too![8D][:D]

[Anonymous]

The yard article has given me a lot of info before I start my class yard. Also the Buffalo line is one AWESOME layout!

[simon1966]

I did not get mine yet, but as I have just completed laying all the track in my yard I am a little nervous about what I will read!

[Anonymous]

n2mopac- I'm going to be optimistic here and say that they are rewarding us for buying the mag. The articles are never left in a cliff hanger. They give you the basics about a particular thing. If they can save time by giving an excert of a book and save enough time to write another article i'm all for it.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

You guys are killing me! I hate living in the town with the slowest post office in the east. Maybe I'll get it on Wednesday.

[JeremyB]

I live in Canada and have had my issue for a week now

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JeremyB

I live in Canada and have had my issue for a week now

Jeremy

No sign of mine in Canada yet!! They've been arriving around the last week of the month for the past while until now. [:(!]

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhh, LED lighting,,,,I gotta try this![:D]

[Anonymous]

I really liked the December isuue ! That one Penn Central layout is huge !

[Anonymous]

Keep the hope up -- mine arrived today, just in time to start reading during the long stretches of talking heads guessing what's going on with the election. [zzz]

[jacon12]

Nothing here in Georgia yet. But, we have to pipe in everything else.. sooooooo

[Anonymous]

I GOT MINE LAST WEEK, FRIDAY I THINK. I LIVE IN MONTREAL AND I USUALY GET IT AROUND THE FIFTH DAY OF THE MONTH.

[Anonymous]

I got mine Saturday. I read it at work during my lunch hour today. Koester's "review" of Sam Posey's book was good. However, it was sad to learn that Koester has no clue that many of us consider operations as much of a bug-a-boo as rivet counting. The product review of the new Bachman DCC was very helpful.

How many remember the old MR articles published in the Christmas issue that explained hot to build a small layout to go under the tree or something like that?

[CNJ831]

jaimezepeda - I'm afraid that Tony Koester has alway been a foaming operator with little appreciation/understanding that fully 70% of hobbyists with home layouts don't "operate" in anything like the traditional sense. Sam Posey, in his writings, seems more balanced with regard to what the general run of hobbyists actual do. Now don't anyone get me wrong here, I'm not anti-operations. I'm just expressing what so many legitimate surveys have revealed over the years.

And, yes, I well recall the many Christmas layouts the December issue of MR always used to include...all the way back to the Pine Tree Central in the early 1950's!

CNJ831

[Anonymous]

I found it interesting to see MR covered a home layout that was actually built by professional layout builders.

Have they done that before?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831

I'm not anti-operations. I'm just expressing what so many legitimate surveys have revealed over the years.

I'm not anti-operations either. I understand how some fellows want to run a miniature railroad in their basements. Me. I just want to build them.

I was part of a club once and we were pretty evenly split between those wanting operations and those of us that just wanted to build stuff. Funny thing was that the "operators" were not usually around when stuff needed to be built. Go figure!?

Koester's column made it sound like he just now found out that many model railroaders don't give a hoot about operations. And he had to find this out by reading it in a book.

Later.
Jaime

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevlar9296

I found it interesting to see MR covered a home layout that was actually built by professional layout builders.

Have they done that before?

Yes, a feature story on an HO scale FEC layout in either 2000 or 2001, and back in the 1980s an article about a professional layout builder, Don Cardiff.

Cross-marketing and promotion of products has been part of MR's recipe for several years. Like it or not, it generates revenue, although it seems rather pimpi***o some people.

[camarokid]

I remember the Don Cardiff article. He had his shop on 5th Street in Saint Charles, Illinois (my home town) in an unused elementary school. I talked with his brother some years back and he had downsized considerably and is no longer in StC. Go Saints!!! Class of 1965.

[Fergmiester]

I picked up mine yesterday at the LHS. Once again a very good edition.

Re: this operations thing. I think this is best suited for a group of people and not the "Lone Wolf" crowd. And from what I can see on this Forum most of us are " lone wolf runners" and not "operators".

Regardless it's a good magazine