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It is the best as far as I am concerned. That does not mean MR should rest on its laurels. It should watch for opprtunities to improve of course. I have copies going back to the fifties and there is something in all of them for me. The problem is that I have not enough time to execute on all the ideas presented that I am interested in. Due to attrition the staff of MR has changed - granted. And new people have to get their feet wet. But this thread gave me an idea to present and I need to do some thinking on it first. There is a way for MR to maybe be on the cutting edge of articles and photographs presented in MR. And what about "How to" articles to help everyone. The info for this could come from older model railroaders that have done things and in the sharing that accumulated knowledge would be there for all from now on. There is already a tremendous amount of this material in the past issues of MR. What needs to be done is attract new and younger people to this hobby of ours. That in turn would expand subscription rates of MR over time. There was awhile ago a thread on this forum talking about the high price of model railroading now as opposed to yesteryear. For a kid in the fifties model railroading was expensive then as it is now. Guess what, I learned how to build things from scratch, and save my money for things I could not build. The plans in MR helped me immensley. I used strip wood, X-Acto tools, model paint, and had to buy couplers and trucks. Track and locomotives too. A three to four dollar kit back then was not cheap. Buildings, roadbed, scenery - all scratch built. And it was fun.
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