All,
Due to pending relocation I would like to give away past MR issues from 1993 thru 2017. ( also some issues of Trains as well) If anyone out there is interested, please respond to this comment. Local pick-up in SE Wisconsin. Thank-you.
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LION has many boxes of said mags. Can't even give them away, the shipping would be PROHIBITIVE!
ROAR
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Bring a few when you visit a doctors office
Joe Staten Island West
Check your local library as well...ours has a used magazine rack that has produced a few gems for me. Also local care centers may have some modelers that no longer have a layout but would love the reading material...check with the facilities activities director.
Dean S May
BroadwayLionLION has many boxes of said mags. Can't even give them away, the shipping would be PROHIBITIVE!
LION, I may be through your neck of the woods in a few months. I might be interested in taking them off your hands, if you want to give them away...
Mark P.
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I went through this a couple years ago. Big pile of railroad magazines. I had always saved them, rereading a 10 year old magazine was like getting a new one. But when I tried to give them away, not only did no one want them, a number of people here actually scolded me for offering.
Offered to local clubs, none even bothered to say "no thanks." You might think some kid getting into it would LOVE a hundred magazines for free.
Finally a Craig's List posting sat there a month, and then a guy - with an eager kid - called me and picked them up. He at least was tickled to find this big treasure.
I have in fact left a few in doctor offices over time. I now live in an old folks home, and a couple of the folks like the Trains magazine, but no one cares for the model stuff.
Thank-you for the messages. Frankly I was going to take them all to recycling, but my wife asked me to try to give them away. I told her it was not that easy. So I put out this posting. I expected the answers you guys have provided me but still appreciate the idea’s.
My wife is a rn in a rehab unit at a local hospital. When I am ready to get ridofmy MR mags she takes them in to her hospital for the patients to read they do not last very long.
Half Price Books takes them. Bundle magazines in full years if you have them.
Lee
2014we sold the house and I tried to give away my magazines every year from 1970 to 2014. No one wanted them, ended up at Goodwill, they took everyone of them. I can’t tell how many car trips I made but they were the only ones who had any interest.
TomO
Where in SE Wis? I would be interested in some, to fill out what's missing in that time, if you still have them.
WC2500 All, Due to pending relocation I would like to give away past MR issues from 1993 thru 2017. ( also some issues of Trains as well) If anyone out there is interested, please respond to this comment. Local pick-up in SE Wisconsin. Thank-you.
I recycled many years of different brands of model train magazines many years ago. Many, many pounds. I use to get magazines from my local library when they did not want them anymore.
Don’t tell me to give them to the library. They don’t want them. I tried.
They eventually get rid of periodicals.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
The only mags that sell now are Gazzette and Timberline and the market for Gazzette is dropping way off (due in part to the mags old issues being put on DVD).
CGW121 she takes them in to her hospital for the patients to read they do not last very long.
Which don't last long...the magazines or the patients?
I would be interested in one, if that's Possible. I don't remember the exact date, but it was around '94-6. (someone help?) There was an article on the then new AC locomotives, discussing the history of the DC units and the new technology going into the new generation of AC powered Locomotives.
Id be glad to pay shipping too. Dan
Southgate I don't remember the exact date, but it was around '94-6. (someone help?)
I've been doing some searching in the archives, haven't come up with it. A Google search, and a search in the Trains.com community brings up a lot of discussion.
Mike.
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the magazines. Most patients get 3 days of rehab then the powers that be says thats all you get and if you want to stay longer its out of pocket, at $5000 a day you can guess what they say.
mbinsewi Southgate I don't remember the exact date, but it was around '94-6. (someone help?) I've been doing some searching in the archives, haven't come up with it. A Google search, and a search in the Trains.com community brings up a lot of discussion. Mike.
Is it just my laptop, or has the magazine index that used to be part of this website been discontinued again? It comes up but any search attemped with it says it is a broken link. I know MR did discontinue it once, or wanted to, but revived it in response to our urging.
Dave Nelson
I had forgotten the index was there, I was seaching the All Time Digital Archives.
I just found, and tried the index. Seems to work. You click on the year you want, when that page opens, you can open a pdf of the years index.
Ah, I was not referring to the annual indexes that used to be paper and come with MR's March or April issue as a rule.
I meant the index to many magazines that a couple of guys developed years ago and which MR purchased from them.
Found here
http://trc.trains.com/magazineindex
OK Dave, I checked out your link and wow! Some of the issues had the broken link thing, but still worked when I clicked on them.
And another wow! I didn't realize MRC was on there too!
Thanks Dave, another eye opener.