mbinsewi From Dana: Hi Mike, It's true. There is no April Fool's in the magazine this year. We decided to take a break and come up with something new for next year. Stay tuned. Have a good day, Dana Mike.
From Dana:
Hi Mike,
It's true. There is no April Fool's in the magazine this year. We decided to take a break and come up with something new for next year. Stay tuned.
Have a good day,
Dana
Mike.
Surprising- but if that NMRA museum takes another year- I'm counting that.....
Oh, well. It gave us something to talk about.
York1 John
mbinsewiThere is no April Fool's in the magazine this year.
Whats the big idea MR? I spent way to long looking for it.
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mbinsewiHi Mike, It's true. There is no April Fool's in the magazine this year. We decided to take a break and come up with something new for next year. Stay tuned. Have a good day, Dana
Well, at least I got my money's worth out of the issue. I read it cover-to-cover about 300 times.
Happy times!
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OK, I just sent a PM to Dana. I don't know if anybody else has.
Yet at the same time, they've been recreating classic old cover photos with the current staff - the latest one has Cody and (is that his actual son?) working on a kit.
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Apparently, traditions have no value in our today´s society. Only the so-called political correctness rules!
Spare me to voice what I think about that!
SBCAI think I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say there is no April Fool's joke this year... Wouldn't be that shocking - every December was traditionally a Christmas-related issue, which has also disappeared...
Mike
wjstix SeeYou190 Is Trains Of Thought really the April Fools joke? I have a hard time with that. Tony Koester has never been noted for a sense of humor that I can recall. IIRC wasn't the April Fool's joke a couple years ago Tony writing a column saying he'd given up on HO, and was going to rebuild his Nickel Plate Road as a hi-rail (1:48 scale, O gauge using three-rail track) layout? Anyway, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who can't find the joke - if there is one? BTW since there were comments in this thread about (mis)pronouncing "Kato"...note that Marklin is correctly pronounced "Mare-clean"; not like the names "Mark" and "Lynn" stuck together. Speaking of O gauge, do you say "Line-ull" or "Lye-a-nell"??
SeeYou190 Is Trains Of Thought really the April Fools joke? I have a hard time with that. Tony Koester has never been noted for a sense of humor that I can recall.
IIRC wasn't the April Fool's joke a couple years ago Tony writing a column saying he'd given up on HO, and was going to rebuild his Nickel Plate Road as a hi-rail (1:48 scale, O gauge using three-rail track) layout?
Anyway, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who can't find the joke - if there is one?
BTW since there were comments in this thread about (mis)pronouncing "Kato"...note that Marklin is correctly pronounced "Mare-clean"; not like the names "Mark" and "Lynn" stuck together.
Speaking of O gauge, do you say "Line-ull" or "Lye-a-nell"??
Come on now, everyone knows it is "lion-ell"..........
Tinplate Toddler maxman I've about reached the same conclusion. I have to agree! I have searched the issue hi and lo and was not able to find any of the MR typical April Fools in this issue - other than the one holding the copy in his hands.
maxman I've about reached the same conclusion.
I have to agree! I have searched the issue hi and lo and was not able to find any of the MR typical April Fools in this issue - other than the one holding the copy in his hands.
I have to agree this is a tough one- I still think it is the "open about the time you read this" of the NMRA Model Railroading Museum.
maxmanI've about reached the same conclusion.
rrinker I'm beginning to think the only April Fools are are us posting here, trying to find that which isn't there.
I've about reached the same conclusion. One would think that if there were some sort of joke Mr. Steven O'Otte would have chimed in with some pity comments such as "close, but no cigar", "look a little harder", "you're way off track", or you're barking up the wrong tie" by now.
xboxtravis7992 mbinsewi rrinker I'm beginning to think the only April Fools are are us posting here, trying to find that which isn't there. I've been thinking the same. Jokes on us! Mike. 2020 the year Model Railroader embraced ironic humor and anti-humor, and the joke was on the reader the whole time... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor
mbinsewi rrinker I'm beginning to think the only April Fools are are us posting here, trying to find that which isn't there. I've been thinking the same. Jokes on us! Mike.
I've been thinking the same. Jokes on us!
2020 the year Model Railroader embraced ironic humor and anti-humor, and the joke was on the reader the whole time... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor
SeeYou190Is Trains Of Thought really the April Fools joke? I have a hard time with that. Tony Koester has never been noted for a sense of humor that I can recall.
rrinker The Narragansett Pier RR is totally legit. Not only did MR cover it completely, about that same timeframe, mid-70's, Railroad Modeler magazine ALSO covered it in depth (and it wasn't the same article getting published in two different magazines). I have both of them - somewhere along the line, my Dad picked up a couple of random Railroad Modelers back then. One of those also has the outdoor N scale (yes, you read that right) layout, and a kitbashing article making the classic Superior Bakery into a combination carbarn/station/office for a traction company. It wasn't until MUCH later I found that MR also did an article on the NPRR, at the same time. I'm beginning to think the only April Fools are are us posting here, trying to find that which isn't there. --Randy
The Narragansett Pier RR is totally legit. Not only did MR cover it completely, about that same timeframe, mid-70's, Railroad Modeler magazine ALSO covered it in depth (and it wasn't the same article getting published in two different magazines).
I have both of them - somewhere along the line, my Dad picked up a couple of random Railroad Modelers back then. One of those also has the outdoor N scale (yes, you read that right) layout, and a kitbashing article making the classic Superior Bakery into a combination carbarn/station/office for a traction company. It wasn't until MUCH later I found that MR also did an article on the NPRR, at the same time.
I'm beginning to think the only April Fools are are us posting here, trying to find that which isn't there.
Found the article- September 1974 MR. The unloading on the trestle is mentioned in the text as well as prototype and model track plans. I believe the lead photo in the article may be of it- but was different than in the April issue and is not captioned as such (nor is it easy to tell from the photo) Soooo one more eliminated. Are they trying to make our eyeballs explode????
Editorial mistake at best.
MR April Fools articles have traditionally been somewhat out there ALMOST plausible - like the NoTrack standard of modeling modern rails to trails, or subway modeling. Or really out there, like pressurizng your basement!
The only thing that I have noticed is on page 21. The photo description refers the the signal in front of the station as semaphore, when in actuality the signal is a train order signal, and has nothing to do with track occupancy detection.
I posted a link earlier to the railroad, and a track plan of the prototype that was in an issue of MR. I think it was Sept. 1974. I'd have to go back to the link and check myself, but it's lagit. The first section of the bridge, there is a stub end road under for unloading the salt.
The actual street goes through, next to the stub end road.
When you look closely at the picture on Page 37, you can see a temporary wall that was built, right behind the first trestle support.
mbinsewi Tinplate Toddler I think I have found it! Page 37? We've discussed page 37 quite a bit Ulrich, what did you see? Or are you "pullin' our caboose"? Mike.
Tinplate Toddler I think I have found it! Page 37?
We've discussed page 37 quite a bit Ulrich, what did you see? Or are you "pullin' our caboose"?
I wouldn´t dare to, Mike
I just can´t figure that a railroad would use - shall I say it? - a bridge as an overhead unleader.
Tinplate ToddlerI think I have found it! Page 37?
I think I have found it! Page 37?
Sierra ManCome on Dana, give it up.
Dana, Yeah, you got us it seems. We cannot find the April Fool joke.
You can please give it up now.
-Kevin
Living the dream.