Did you get your copy? Hope you enjoy it! We had a great time putting it together!
Be sure to join us for our 75th anniversary party in Milwaukee. Details below. See you there! Jim
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Jim Wrinn Did you get your copy? Hope you enjoy it! We had a great time putting it together! Be sure to join us for our 75th anniversary party in Milwaukee. Details below. See you there! Jim https://secure.kalmbach.com/order/?c=75TRAIN
mine has not yet arrived!
Nor has mine--though it may have been delivered today and my daughter will bring it to me tomorrow.
Or, it is so special that it took longer to put together and to print?
Johnny
I seem to get mine about three days after everyone else.
Norm
I'd usually have mine by the 1st, but not this time. Looking forward to reading it.
Maybe he can hand me one in Minneapolis on Sunday or Monday.
Not yet. Hurry up!
Mine was delivered to the house yesterday and my daughter brought it down this morning.
Deggesty Mine was delivered to the house yesterday and my daughter brought it down this morning.
My arrived USPS on 10/1 (Thursday) Have scanned it, briefly... Lots of information to contemplate! Can't wait to sit down and dig in.
I received mine yesterday (10/1). So far, very nice!
I particuraly enjoyed the 75 item RR "bucket list". I could count about 10 as "been there, done that".
from the Far East of the Sunset Route
(In the shadow of the Huey P Long bridge)
Mine arrived in KS on the 1st. Will get into it tonight.
Got it today. Looks like it's going to be very interesting.
Got it today.
I hope that Lackawanna Alco is preserved. And sad to see Union Pacific dumping a lot of MP15's.
Haven't read anything else yet except the locomotive section and that story about the HH660.
Mine's probably waiting at home for me. I tried to find it at a couple of news stands up here, but the "Land of No Trains" seems to also be the Land of No (Current) Trains at the moment.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
I got my trains on Sept.30.
Mine came Thurs. 01 Oct. via the USPS, a/k/a Pony Express (but not via the Railway Mail Service !!!).
Generally very good. A couple quibbles* (of course !), but more about most of those later.
*John Kneiling on pg. 56 - none of his ideas ever "took the industry by storm" !
What's scary is that I've been reading it for just over 50 years now . . . Some kind soul donated his collection to our elementary (!) school library, and I and 2 others were hooked.
Have we ever done a "Favorite Issue" thread here ? If not, maybe we should.
I love the "Number 195 in a series" - the content, format, and the tongue-in-cheek presentation, buried back on page 104 in the 3rd column without any fanfare about it.
Mr. Wrinn, I still think DPM was one-of-a kind and that we'll not see his kind come this way again - but you outdid yourself with this issue and especially the "From the Editor" introduction in the front. Well done, and thank you.
MC - wish I could be there with you. Maybe next year - new employer is a lot more receptive to those kind of things for my PDH's.
- Paul North.
I am glad a David Plowden photograph was chosen to be included in this special issue.
Dave Nelson
Still waitin'. I thought Trains was venerable when I read the 25th anniversary issue! (Now I think we're both venerable.)
Jim Wrinn We had a great time putting it together!
Really enjoy the added length. Too bad that all issues do not break the century mark.
We're home...still no issue (I often wonder whether there are railfans at the post office--which is across the road from the tracks). Come tomorrow night, I might panic!The first issue of Trains I ever saw (my dad got it for me) was the 20th anniversary issue: November 1960. I started buying it for myself in June 1962, had a subscription a year after that, then bought a three-year subscription, then a lifetime subscription. Since I paid $75 for a lifetime subscription, I'm usually paid back about once a year now, based on cover prices.Hard to believe that a lot of the staff wasn't even born yet when Rosemary Entringer was cracking the whip...
Face it, Carl--we're getting on in years.
I wish I had had the $75.00 way back when.
My issue arrived on Friday and I am finding it both fascinating and frightening. Fascinating because railroading is always fascinating and frightening because it seems like it wasn't that long since I got the 35th anniversary issue with SP 4449 as a recurring theme.
Got mine today. OOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
It's a keeper! This one is NOT going to the recycle bin or the mag rack at the gym!
Trains! You have outdone yourselves. It is simply on of the best issues you have ever published. Your map of Milwaukee to Chicago passenger service was the best map I have ever seen in any magazine. I have many fond memories of riding both the Milwaukee Road and C&NW over the years before Amtrak between Milwaukee and Chicago. My biggest regret was never riding an Electroliner.
I really miss the first person accounts of riding passenger trains that David P Morgan and George Drury wrote. David S Thomson brought back those fond memories.
As for your bucket list; I think you may have missed Grand Dad's Bluff in LaCrosse Wisconsin and the DM&IR line between Proctor Minnesota and the ore docks in Duluth. It was fabulous during steam and even today with DM&IR being part of CN, the passage of trains is unforgetable. Needless to say there are more than 75 great places to watch trains in 2015.
Being from the west I would have included the Keddie Bridge as a place to see.
Diningcar, I wonder where Icould find an issue of April 1948 Trains Mag. I think it has an article about Valve gears of different kind. I had that issue but it must have Vaporised. Does the Index go that far back?
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
cannonball, greretings from KS. I have move for family reasons so no longer live near you. Sorry I cannot help ith your question.
Finally, it arrived today. Impressive-looking; I hope I'll get the chance to curl up with it soon.
I'm still waiting for my copy to show up.
I do have my father-in-law's copy of the first issue of Trains - I'm pretty sure he was a charter subscriber. I missed the 25 year anniversary issue by about a year and a half, my first issue was June 1967.
- Erik
CShaveRR Finally, it arrived today. Impressive-looking; I hope I'll get the chance to curl up with it soon.
The speed of the Lombad PO. Mine arrived today as well. Haven't had much time to spend with it yet.
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