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Terry I don't know but I took it that what was meant was that the book/mag was so old that the cover was torn with use. For myself... this last weekend I struck gold at my LHS with 1975 and 1980 folder copies of MR. The 1975 in particular includes an article on street running in Chicago which is EXACTLY what I have been looking for for ages. These two years must be part of the few remaining gaps that I have had in my collection of mags going back well into the 60s (My UK mags go back into the 30s....it's hard work moving house!) I guess that this is an enormous plug for how useful model mags (and books) are. I have been forced to make decisions between mags and "makings" in the last couple of years. i don't know about anyone else but something that really put me off and still puts me off mags is the intermixing of editorial material with adverts. I know that adverts both inform readers and provide the publisher with revenue which makes the mag possible, keeps the price down or both but this mixing still drives me nuts. As far as content ideas goes... the short but pithy articles on the real thing are far out the best and most useful for someone several thousand miles away. The "how to's" ( like those I've praised above) are next best. Layouts are (sort of) interesting... BUT someone's already done that. The big point I rather rushed in to make was directly related to this last... we can start to see models based on models rather than on the real thing. So whatever issues one layout may have from compression may get made worse and worse again as we progress from the real thing. OOPS...must go out... will comment again later Thanks for the mags, books and forum :-) I'm back! [:)] If I may hijack the thread briefly to make some suggestions... Things that would be useful to me as a UK railwayman looking at US Railroads would be articles on operation. This is not just Rules and "procedure" but what a journey or switching job is like from the footplate. Or what a towerman's shift or a ZDispatcher's shift is like. Again guidance on just what can be seen in a photo of the real thing is useful. We get some stuff on identifying characteristics of specific locos and sometimes cars... taken furtherthis could include what is around a depot, yard... just a set of switches. i know that some stuff like this has been done...MORE PLEASE! The responses that developed to my thread "Aliens on the track" were really useful. Someone raised a thread on buildings around a staging yard... fantastic! An endless source for taking a pic apart and saying "look at this detail". Hope this is useful. [8D][8D][8D]
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