What do you read?

[orsonroy]

Considering I'm a voracious reader, I'll stick to railroading literature here:

Model Railroader: for the photos and ads. They've got the best photos in the hobby. Their text content sucks, and I can generally read the mag cover to cover in 1.5 hours.
Mainline Modeler: scratchbuilding articles and plans.
Rail Model Craftsman: all around more interesting articles than MR, but photos, plans and diagrams are of much lower quality. Their series on essential freight cars is highlighting the absolute best modeling in the hobby, in any scale.

I go through almost every other mag looking for content, and generally buy one a year of all the major mags. In addition, I've been collecting backissues of MR, MM, RMC, PM, and RMJ, since there are more plans in older issues, and the mags from the 1980s and 1990s carried the most useful modelling articles and more text.

I occasionally buy Trains, Railpace and Railfan to see what's going on in the modern RR scene and preservation. Trains is the best.

I also have every book printed that deals with my target railroads of interest, and use them extensively for reference. Thankfully, I'm interested in smaller regional roads, instead of big popular roads like the Santa Fe or Pennsy!

I also collect RR paperwork that deals witht he operation and look of the railroad. While I ignore advertisements, passenger timetables, and promotional material, I collect train orders, employee timetables, track diagrams, blueprints, and anything else that seems like a useful source for hard data. I collect the paperwork for it's information, not it's "collectibility status". I'll run off a few copies of the material, and either trade or sell either the copies or the originals, just to get more data.

[Anonymous]

I currently only subscribe to MR, but I want to start getting others.

[Anonymous]

MR, Mainline, RMC, Diesel Era, Narrow Gauge Gazzette, and anything else that catches my eye.

[Anonymous]

Model Railroader, Trains, Classic Trains, Railfan & Railroad, Railpace, The Railroad Press, and Diesel Era. Every once in a while I'll get another if it has something good in it.

[Anonymous]

I subscribe to both MRR and RMC. I think the two compliment each other as each seems to have a different emphasis. I also keep all my old issues with sticky notes on articles that either contain a project I want to do or contain some info that will help on future projects.

I also try to find books that are related to my modeling. Pennsy Power and the Pennsy Diesel Years are fantastic. I've also found many out of print books on ebay related to my modeling.

[Fergmiester]

MR, CN SIG, Canadian Model Railroader and Locomotive Quarterly and instructions to kits.

Fergie

[lyctus]

I subscribe to MR, Classic Trains and I have just subscribed to RMC as I begin to miss the articles in MR which were in depth and aimed at slightly better than novices. I do not wi***o criticise MR as it is kinda pivotal to my need for model rail info, but I felt that RMC might fill this gap. Like the brilliant article on the railway/meatpacking industry in the last two editions.
I read PRRHS Keystone Modeller on line. What a great magazine!
I pick up copies of Australian Railway Model Magazine from time to time.
I subscribe to Fine Woodworking magazine ....for the woodworking articles and news...and an English publication "The Router" for ...the woodworking articles.

[darth9x9]

I subscribe to MR and Trains only. I will only pick up an issue from some one else if there is an article I really want to read. The others just don't have the value content to warrant a subscription.

[Anonymous]

Model Railroader
Trains Magazine
Classic Trains
Railfan & Railroad
Historic Rail

Plus I've got tons of RR books.

[TrainFreak409]

I read anything and everything I get hold of.

Model Railroader
Trains
Classic Toy Trains
O Gauge Railroader
Model Railroad Craftsman
Model Railroading Journal

Those are just a few. I read so many more, I cannot list them all. Working at a train store gives me an infinate supply of older magazines to read. [:D]

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[ozzy01]

I subscribe to MR. I get Trains , RMC , Railfan & Railroad , Mainline Modeler when something is in them I want to read about. Model Railroading when I can find it. Would get Rail Model Journal , but no one in central Kentucky seems to carry it.

[rogerhensley]

Model Railroader and Scale Rails (NMRA).
New York Central System Historical Society Central Headlight
Monon Historical Society The Hoosier Line
QST (ARRL)
PC World

[Anonymous]

subscribe to Model Railroader and own a few Kalmbach books. The Last Steam Railroad in North America & Steel and Stars by O. Winston Link are my favorite "prototype" books. The text is interesting but the pictures, well, no need to elaborate...[:P]

[twhite]

MR, Trains, Classic Trains, Railroad Model Craftsman and any RR history books I can get my hands on. Other than that, I like Tolstoy, "The Great Gatsby" and anything by James Ellroy.

[Anonymous]

Model Railroader,Trains,Railpace,CTC Board,RMC,Railroad&Railfan,RMJ,Model Railroading,The SOO,Milwaukee Railroader,Northwestern Lines(CNWHS member), N -Scale Railroading,my trucking,forest,paper, and construction trade magazines like Asphalt Contractor,Public Works,Roads and Bridges,Construction Equipment Guide,Equipment World,Railway Age,Progressive Railroads and Paper Age,not to mention the vast assortment of railroad books I have and am ordering in both historical and present day railroads.

[n2mopac]

I have subscribed to MR for 10 years. In that time I have subscribed to 4 other modeling mags. I have let all of those subscriptions drop except MR. The only other mag I read at all is the occasional RMC issue off the newsstand when an article strikes my fancy. All said, MR is the best all around model railroading magazine in the English language that I am aware of.

Ron

[Jetrock]

Normally I only read MR, and even then not every month--aside from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association's monthly newsletter. I tend to pick up old back issues of RAILROAD or TRAINS if I can get them cheap, as well as TRACTION & MODELS, but generally don't buy a lot of new model railroad magazines. The articles are just as good and the price is generally much more affordable!

[espeefoamer]

Besides MR,Trains,Railfan & Railroad,Railpace,CTC Board, Trainline(SPH&TS Publication).

[Anonymous]

Subscriptions: Model Railroader, Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette and am a member of the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association so I get their publication "The Mainstreeter" Regularly pick-up Railroad Model Crafstman and irregularly pick-up other model railroad magazines and proto-type mags. Considering Classic Trains.

[BRAKIE]

I read MR,Classic Trains and R&R.

[Anonymous]

Model Railroader, Railroad Model Craftsman, Model Railroading, Railmodel Journal, Trains, Railpace, Diesel Era, and TRP. That does it for train related stuff but I also read CPU Computer magazine, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN Magazine.

[on30francisco]

I read Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette, Light Iron Digest, Model Railroading, Railroad Model Craftsman, old issues of Model Railroader (at the public library), books on cosmology, particle physics, exotic places, history of rock & roll and jazz and many other subjects.

[Anonymous]

Trains, R & R, The Short Line
RMC
I also pick up copies of Mainline Modeler and Model Railroading if I can find them at hobby shops.

John

[AggroJones]

Model Railroading, Model Railroad Craftsman, Model Railroader, and most Kalmbach books.

[Anonymous]

If it sparks my interest, I read it.

[leighant]

Model Railroader (and OLD Model Railroaders I read again and again, and catalog, and sometimes if it has been 20 years since I cataloged that particular batch, I go through and catalog em again since my interests and focuses have changed, and I see things I hadn't seen before.)

Warbonnet, the publication of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society.

"N Gauge" the magazine. (mostly to drool over the things I would like to buy but don't have money for when they are available, and when I do have a little money handy, they are no longer available.)

[IRONROOSTER]

I subscribe to MR, while I enjoy most of the articles I really like its emphasis on layouts.
I also subscribe to RMC which I feel kind of rounds out MR with more modeling articles and prototype articles. I subscribe to S Gaugian, because I'm in S scale and it provides scale specific articles and ads. I subscribe to Classic Toy Trains just because I like them. As a member of the NMRA and NASG I get their publications also. I usually buy each issue of Classic Trains and Maine 2 Foot Quarterly as well as occaisional issues of others when they have an article that interests me.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Mostly MR but i will read anything related to model railroading doesnt matter what the scale of magazine be it N scale or Garden Railways because the ideas and solutions that they give you can be made to work with whatever scale you are modeling in or at least get you ging in the right direction

Regards

Larry

[Hawks05]

so far all i have to read are books but i do have November issues of MR and Trains. i plan on subscribing to MR but i'll continue to pick up Trains. only have enough money to subscribe to one right now.

outside of MR i subscribe to Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, and ESPN the Magazine. if you can't tell i'm a big sports fan.