Your attention to the existance of tthe magazine Heritage Railways with its info on current steam operations in the UK.
Right you are Dave, and I believe it's available at Barnes and Noble. At least I THINK I've seen it at B&N. I know I've seen the British aviation heritage magazine "Fly Past" at B&N stores.
"Fly Past" is kinda cool. Imagine an aviation magazine written by Dickens, Wordsworth, the Bronte' sisters, Goldsmith and others and you get the idea of the quality of the writing.
The copies of "Heritage Railways" I've seen are of the same standard.
I've got a few Heritage Railway magazines right here. There is a LOT of info on the current scene, also some info about what's happening in other countries such as the UP restoring a Big Boy. "The Railway" magazine covers the whole schmeer, with modern and heritage railways being covered. They are worth buying. In Britain, there are a lot more titles that we can't buy here. In Germany, any rail station book store has at least 20 rail-related titles, some covering only streetcars, some only steam, you get the idea.
I met the editor of Heritage Railway at the National Railway Museum on 3 July when he was trying to finalise the issue covering the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of "Mallard's" speed record. We had both retired to the library to avoid the large proportion of the population of the United Kingdom gathered around the six A4s below.
We both decided to wait until the close to get a photo with the fewest obstructions in front of the six A4s.
He seemed quite impressed that I had travelled from Australia to be there. I ended up speaking to him when I found a Chinese photograph in a library book that changed the conventional view of the SY class design. The first locomotive had all the Russian features familiar from the larger JS and RM classes, although none of these appeared on the production locomotives, which had reverted to the more conventional feature of pre WWII Japanese built locomotives.
I had to explain this to somebody, and he was most polite about it although I don't think he understood a word I said. I'll make a point of picking up the issue he was working on since he was going to so much trouble to get it right....
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