danmerkel I have the original version and do use it from time to time. But there are some drawbacks, the biggest one being that I can't print off any of the articles. So if I want to take a construction article to the workbench, I'm kind of hosed over. :( Otherwise, I am looking forward to the newest release. dlm
I have the original version and do use it from time to time. But there are some drawbacks, the biggest one being that I can't print off any of the articles. So if I want to take a construction article to the workbench, I'm kind of hosed over. :(
Otherwise, I am looking forward to the newest release.
dlm
I have the 75 year edition. By clicking the print icon on the black bar, I am able to print a specified page range.
I have pre ordered the 10 year version also.
Like Sheldon, I also keep all my paper copies - all issues back to 1950 and several more for the late 40's as well (all before 1972 bought used). Plus RMC and NMRA Bulletin (in all its names) back to 1972.
Paul
This deal just got even better: it seems that if you put something in your cart at the Kalmbach hobby store and then move your cursor up towards the "back" button on your browser (in my case, Safari), the store knows you are possibly backing out of a transaction and sweetens the deal: a box pops up that offers a 15% discount on your item. I thought, what if I put in a "20" or "25" in place of the "15"? I found out that there is no 25% off but there is a 20% off. So, on this item of $35 I just checked out and entered CART20 in the coupon field and got $7 off. Total price after tax: $29.95. Shipping is free!
Andy
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That's a great deal. Worth it just for the special issues.
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Just found this and already ordered it. Thanks to the OP for posting.
Tom
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The Milwaukee Road Warrior ATLANTIC CENTRAL Andy, I subscribe to the magazine and the archives, and I have them in print from the mid 40' to now. Holy smokes. You must have a whole room just to store this! I'm envious: I too prefer hard copy/print to computer screen. I will have to investigate the archives in addition to getting this DVD.
ATLANTIC CENTRAL Andy, I subscribe to the magazine and the archives, and I have them in print from the mid 40' to now.
Andy, I subscribe to the magazine and the archives, and I have them in print from the mid 40' to now.
Holy smokes. You must have a whole room just to store this! I'm envious: I too prefer hard copy/print to computer screen. I will have to investigate the archives in addition to getting this DVD.
They don't take up as much space as you think. They are in cardboard magazine organizers which are each full, so if the thickness of issues allows a year and a half or more in one organizer, that's how it is.
https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-8244/Corrugated-Displays/Magazine-File-Boxes-9-1-4-x-4-x-12
At my old house, which was pretty big, MR was in my office, on some built in book cases, RMC and others were on shelves under the layout.
At the new house I plan to keep all of them on shelves under the layout. The layout room is is 1600 sq feet, I think I have more than enough room.
Right now, more than half are on just two 36" wide, 7' tall bookcases in the layout room (basement).
But one of the secrets is filing up each holder and not using MR binders or anything like that.
I also have 1700 vinyl records and 800 music CD's, they take up more room than the magazines, and they too will be stored under the layout at the new house.
Sheldon
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I really don't like reading stuff like that on a screen, except for a quick reference, so I will keep my print copies.......
But the archives is a great way to search up what you are looking for.
If you subscribe to the Archives, then you have all that. I don't, because I have it all available offline. Might find it secondhand somewhere.
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rrinker every issue from 1934 up to 2009
every issue from 1934 up to 2009
Man, I would love that. I suppose it is long out of print. Talk about a gold mine. This is like when National Geographic offered every single issue on a similar searchable database around 2000.
As a side note you can buy from start up to 1999 from England but not the 75 year collection, wonder why?
Yeah, just the once, and I don't think it got a huge reception, as it's no longer available. Plus the embedded PDF reader is used got backlisted by one or another Mac OSX update and won't run if you have that version or newer. Meanwhile it continues to work fine on Windows 10 (I think I had Windows 7 when I bought it).
I already have paper or digital copies of everything since, as I have been a subscriber for a long time. 10 years seems like a nice cutoff, if you subscribe to the paper version. Technically, I suppose I don't need this, as most of the time since 2009 I've been a digital only subscriber so I have all those issues already, at least as long as Zinio is around. So yeas, you have to wait 10 years, unless you are a subscriber, then you will have all the issues from now for the next 10 years. The DVD just makes them handy.
Not sure what format this will be in, the old one was simply password protected PDFs with a front end that had a search engine to look stuff up. The Classic Trains one which came out a year or two later is basically the same. Since all the newer issues were produced electroncially anyway, there seems to be no need for them to be scanned or anything - in the original collection, since most of that was from long before computers, let alone computerized typesetting, they are actually scans of the actual pages.
Oops, our posts crossed in the ether Randy. Good information, thanks! I would have thought MR had offered this once or maybe twice already with DVD's coming out in the late 90s.
And just to clarify, the media is DVD but this is not a video as I understand it. This would simply be digitized versions of all the magazines printed from 2010-2019 along with the special editions - in some sort of searchable format. It seems like a great deal when you consider the price of a subscription for the hardcopy magazine for even a single year. I have not subscribed to the digital archives or MRVP but I would think those also cost more for a single year than this.
The only down side I can see to this is that you obviously have to wait 10 years (!) until each decade is released; you have no contemporaneous access to content during that entire time. That is a big consideration of course, but for someone like me who is just getting a jump start on things and who doesn't have a big backlog of magazines and/or other digital sources to refer to, this seems like a gold-mine.
This is the first time this has been offered. I have the original offering, which is every issue from 1934 up to 2009. With that I purges a LOT of space on my bookshelves because I had a pretty fair collection both as a steady subscriber from 1989 on and buying up back years at train shows all the time.
I will be buying the new one, which has all the newer issues - be nice if it fully integrated in the old one, but I doubt it. I also have the Classic Trains 10 year DVD as well.
Basically, the choice is, buy this, one time expense, or add the Archive option to your subscription on a monthly basis to access it all online.
I'm hoping they keep this up, and in another 10 years do another 10 year set. And hopefully a second 10 years for Classic Trains, too. A reasonable price, and a reasonable time span per pack. The original one, since it was the entire first 75 years of MR, wasn't exactly cheap.
I've never bought any MR videos, or videos from any supplier or source, but I do subscribe to the Digital Archives, and I'll probably do so until I no longer subscribe to MR, if and when that ever happens.
Hopefully someone that does buy these will chime in.
I'll be interested in what they have to say.
Mike.
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I received this email yesterday and am seriously considering this. I'm really surprised the price for a decade of MR magazine (2010-2019) with 11 special issues is only $34. Maybe I'm missing something but this seems like a great deal. I'm wondering if MR does this every 10 years and, if so, has anyone here purchased this searchable DVD before?
Curious to hear feedback good or bad. This seems like a no-brainer: load it up on my desktop in my layout area and find anything I need while I work on the layout.
https://kalmbachhobbystore.com/product/dvd/15361?utm_source=Yesmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SA000_HBS_200120_P37219_MR10YearArchivePresale_MRR-MRV-HBS