I received my May 2019 issue today, and it looks as if the magazine has been printed on a lower grade paper than what we're normally accustomed to. I also have a couple pages with ink stains over them - which I've never had before. Anyone else seeing this?
I leafed through it the other night, the first one I have ever received, before the 1st of the month. Like Playboy, I looked at the pictures and noticed neither what you noticed.
I give this thread 3 more posts before it is locked.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
No, I didn't notice anything like that.
I went to the car dealer this morning for a recall for an airbag replacement that was only supposed to take about an hour, to an hour and a half.
Sure am glad I brought my Model Railroader magazine so I had something interesting to read while I was waiting in the boring waiting room.
Three and a half hours later, I had my trusty Model Railroader Magazine with me to pass the time.
It felt the same, it paged the same and it read the same. My May magazine was exactly the same as my April issue. Sturdy enough and readable. Nice pictures too.
The only request I would have for them to change about their magazine would be the possibility of a centerfold locomotive that folds out with scratch and sniff diesel aroma
TF
April Fools???
Track fiddlerThe only request I would have for them to change about their magazine would be the possibility of a centerfold locomotive that folds out
May 1970 issue 3 page foldout for a 4 page spread of the NP and SP&S
Challengers.
Track fiddlerwith scratch and sniff diesel aroma
Locomotives don't have diesel - that's for trucks.
Paul
I have April and May still untouched... I will read them next week in Atlanta.
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I am so far behind.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I do think the paper had more of a hard gloss finish some years ago but the paper in the May issue seems the same as in recent years' issues.
I also notice that to my eyes the color in MR (and in Trains) seems less, well, vivid than it looks in older issues - a change that started about the time of their Issue #1000 special issue.
Having said that, the two page photo on pages 72-73 is one of the first times, maybe THE first time, where I could truthfully say that a photo of models was not just highly realistic, but actually looks like (and could be confused for) a prototype photograph. I know tht has been said of some other extraordinary photos but I have always detected some slight give-away. Here even the front coupler looks real, as do the MU hoses, the ties and track and ballast, and the dirt or bug splatter on the anti-climber. Finally I did notice a suspicious shine to the static grass, and that the first freight car is mighty clean for how much graffiti it has. But that's not much, and other than that .... wow. Jeffrey Meyer is the modeler and photographer.
Dave Nelson
Track fiddler The only request I would have for them to change about their magazine would be the possibility of a centerfold locomotive that folds out with scratch and sniff diesel aroma
Save that for "Hostler" magazine.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
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I just cracked open my May, Trains and — first time I've ever seen this before — there are two inky fingerprints on separate pages! Maybe the pressman (pressperson) pulled a copy for a "quality check"?
I wonder if production is still with Quad Graphics?
http://mrv.trains.com/series/mr-insider/2013/05/mr-insider-chicago-to-washington-dc-aboard-the-quad-graphics-silver-zephyr
Cheers, Ed
gmpullmanI just cracked open my May, Trains and — first time I've ever seen this before — there are two inky fingerprints on separate pages! Maybe the pressman (pressperson) pulled a copy for a "quality check"?
Having worked as a printer's assistant in my youth, that's exactly what I thought. Generally, such copies are discarded, but it's possible one of those ended up back in the run output. Makes it quite a unique find, but I'm sure MR customer service will ship you a pristine copy if it's not entirely suitable.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
mlehman I'm sure MR customer service will ship you a pristine copy if it's not entirely suitable.
Oh, it gives the magazine a personal touch.
What if all of these had been found and tossed?
Inverted_Jenny 1918 by Edmund, on Flickr
Or, maybe the pressman wanted to check on progress of the UP 4014?
gmpullmanOr, maybe the pressman wanted to check on progress of the UP 4014?
That's entirely possible. Where I worked at in the summer of '75 was the Rantoul Press, which had the contract to print a local publisher's output who is well-known in the S scale world and in narrowgauge circles, Don Heimburger. This included his S scale standard gauge mag (I don't recall the title) and Sn3 Modeler, which I read with a great deal of interest although I couldn't quite make the leap to Sn3.
I had the pleasure of reading both first after their leaving the editor's hands. Later, I had the pleasure to meet Don at a National Narrow Gauge Convention. About that time I found out a fellow worker at a previous employer was a boyhood pal of Don's. Small world sometimes...
I flipped through the April and May issues today, and they seem the same as recent issues to me.
I don't notice any difference in pages. I guess there is some what of a "stain" on page 65, but I don't see anything else.
Of course, I don't look for things like page quality, stains, etc., some do, for what ever reason.
Even if it's only their 2nd post.
I haven't scrutinized the Trains mag yet. I'll get my Optivisor and well get to the bottom of this scandal.
Mike.
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