Am I the first to receive the February issue? I stopped at my mailbox after supper this evening--and my copy was in.
I have not had time to really read it, but I have found that it is the most underground issue I remember ever seeing--A article about a tunnel in South Alabama, more on the Virginia Avenue Tunnel, and more on the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
Johnny
DeggestyAm I the first to receive the February issue? I stopped at my mailbox after supper this evening--and my copy was in.
Mine was here, too. And along with the pleasure came the pain - the property tax bill...
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Got mine Monday!
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Got mine today also.
Still Waitin'.
Norm
Mine showed up yesterday.
Still waiting for my January issue..
Showed-up yesterday and a little worse for wear. (snowed-in postman reading material?)
Ulrich Still waiting for my January issue..
Contact customer service, they WILL replace it. They replaced one of mine, the December issue, that didn't show up.
Mine showed up today in good condition.
Got a kick out of Brian Solomon's inaugral column.
I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory. If we can't do better than this, we are in desperate staits, indeed.
Deggesty Am I the first to receive the February issue? I stopped at my mailbox after supper this evening--and my copy was in. I have not had time to really read it, but I have found that it is the most underground issue I remember ever seeing--A article about a tunnel in South Alabama, more on the Virginia Avenue Tunnel, and more on the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
Got mine saturday, enjoyed the articles about Tier-4, locomotive lights, and the track gang.
The staff seems to be doing much better making sure that locations mentioned in the feature story's are actually shown on the maps that accompany them (the tunnel articles)
Map of the month go the same way as the once promised "Everything you always wanted to know about paint" article?
dakotafred I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory. If we can't do better than this, we are in desperate staits, indeed.
That's too bad, I really "dug" the tunnel articles.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Hot Spots, pg 62, focuses on Galesburg, IL which is indeed a very interesting site on BNSF. However readers may wonder how the westbound SWC transitions from the former BN to the ATSF line and vice-versa how the eastbound SWC from the ATSF to the BN.
It would help if the map were expanded about 3-4 miles west to Cameron where a unique double wye connection makes the answer clear.
Firelock76 dakotafred I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory. If we can't do better than this, we are in desperate staits, indeed. That's too bad, I really "dug" the tunnel articles.
Boring!
You started it.... (Need to go underground for a while)
dakotafredI'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory.
Someone says that about just about every issue - whilst others find the selfsame issue fascinating...
tree68 dakotafred I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory. Someone says that about just about every issue - whilst others find the selfsame issue fascinating...
dakotafred I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory.
Aside from the well-publicized case of the first all-diesel issue back in 1963, I don't know of any but I would assume that it has happened occasionally. DPM also noted that the reader who returned said all-diesel issue did NOT cancel his subscription.
Deggesty tree68 dakotafred I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory. Someone says that about just about every issue - whilst others find the selfsame issue fascinating... Has anybody yet been so disgusted as to tear it into two pieces and return it to the editors?
Has anybody yet been so disgusted as to tear it into two pieces and return it to the editors?
Murphy SidingIf I started following that impulse, I'd be reading my local newspaper every day in halves.
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Hegewisch Paul:
It was the May 1962 issue...the last issue before I started getting the Magazine regularly. (Needless to say, that one's now in my collection...as part of a bound volume.)
Carl
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Thanks for the followup, I've got that issue too. I didn't start getting the Magazine on a regular basis until September 1967 (irregularly before that starting in July 1965) but got lots of prior issues through Kalmbach and various and sundry swap sessions.
Mookie Murphy Siding If I started following that impulse, I'd be reading my local newspaper every day in halves. +1
Murphy Siding If I started following that impulse, I'd be reading my local newspaper every day in halves.
+1
Murphy Siding Deggesty tree68 dakotafred I'm sorry to say mine arrived -- the most boring, irrelevant issue in my memory. Someone says that about just about every issue - whilst others find the selfsame issue fascinating... Has anybody yet been so disgusted as to tear it into two pieces and return it to the editors? If I started following that impulse, I'd be reading my local newspaper every day in halves.
If I started following that impulse, I'd be reading my local newspaper every day in halves.
There have been times when my local (well, regional from Des Moines) has been separated into smaller pieces. I can't do that anymore though. I read it on the computer now.
There have been a few issues of Trains that "almost" received the same treatment. Although I agonized over renewal, not because of this issue although I agree with the minority on most of this issue's interest for me, I did renew.
Jeff
This seems as good a place as any to post:
Today I went to the mailbox and found two Trains Magazines just delivered.
On checking, they were both posted 01 January 2017.
I'm in Australia, so the timing for January isn't really bad.
The only difference on the labels were serial numbers...
Near the bottom left under "SYDD" one read GKAL009602 and the other read GKAL010602
Under the address was a barcode with lettering underneath
One ("009") read Ref#;SYDD-000212-A4UDAC
The other ("010") Ref#:SYDD-000208-A4YUAC
(EDIT) Initially I thought these were both January issues, being posted on the same day, but there was both a January and February issue, really good timing for February, less good for January....
Peter
One article in the Feb. issue talks about a tunnel in Alabama being the Southernmost railroad tunnel in the US.
While racing a Homestead-Miami Speedway two weekends ago I noticed a sign posted alongside the tunnel that allows entry to the speedway's infield area underneath NASCAR Turn 3 as being the 'Southernmost Tunnel in the Continental US'.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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