Just re-subscribed to CTT (I let it lapse last year). I wasn't all that happy with OGR. Plus the CTT Christmas (am I allowed to say that word?) issues are VERY cool Dep
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That's great. I still go issue by issue at the book store but I am considering re-upping soon. The folks at CTT are a good bunch. Then again they still get my $$$ LOL! My problem is throwing them away. I think I'll find a doctors office to dump them at.
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DeputyJust re-subscribed to CTT (I let it lapse last year). I wasn't all that happy with OGR. Plus the CTT Christmas (am I allowed to say that word?) issues are VERY cool Dep
Earl
Marty: Good to see you!!! Earl: I seem to remember lots of comments last year about the Christmas situation. I hope CTT hasn't gone "politically correct" and decided to eliminate Christmas coverage because it's a religious holiday. Christmas has been linked to toy trains ever since toy trains came into existence. I wasn't very happy with the Christmas coverage in OGR.Dep
Dep,
Welcome back, so what's new? Has any new trains fround their way to NM?
Don
dbaker48 Dep, Welcome back, so what's new? Has any new trains fround their way to NM?
Hi Don!!! Only "new" stuff I've got coming is a Lionel Type "Z" transformer I grabbed off E-Bay. I've been looking for a good price on a green 5-stripe scale Lionel or MTH GG-1, but they are all pretty pricey. I've also been tracking one of those Copper Range Ore Train sets on E-Bay. I think that would be neat under the Christmas tree. Also picked up a couple of good books from Amazon:Greenberg's Repair and Operating Manual for Lionel Trains, 1945-1969 Greenberg's Guides Lionel Trains Pocket Price Guide 2009
Mike, I doubt that CTT has any problem with Christmas as a religious holiday. In any case, their interest or lack of it would surely have to do not with that but with a couple of its secular aspects, that is, the circumnavigation of Christmas trees by toy trains.
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OgaugeoverlordLike many things, coverage is dictated by what we receive or what we can photograph. This year we have a pretty good batch of Christmas material.
cool looking forward to it.
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rtraincollector OgaugeoverlordLike many things, coverage is dictated by what we receive or what we can photograph. This year we have a pretty good batch of Christmas material. cool looking forward to it.
Dep, I had seen that you started back posting. Unlike Buckeye, we had missed you and some of your humor. Hope all is well. I guess you still live in the "dryer" part of the country.
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I renewed for 3 years.
CTT grabs my attention more so than the others. I appreciate the nice covers with bold print and good layout. And inside the pictures just seem the best. Really like the layout building series too. Overall, when I pick up CTT it makes me want to run trains and build layouts.
I also want to see a good Christmas related issue.
Hi Chief!!! Hope you finally got those MTH switches sorted out I missed all of you guys. Good to be back.
Deputy,
Welcome back.
You are correct, Christmas and trains mostly go together, not only under, or by the 'Christmas Tree', but also, as Christmas gifts.
Ralph
Thanks Ralph. And well said. They ARE great Christmas gifts.
Hey Dep...Welcome HOME!!!
I, too, am looking forward to the Christmas Spectacular Issue of CTT!!!
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Hi Anj!!! Good to see you.
I don't understand how anyone can honestly complain about CTT or OGR. Certainly some issues are more to one's taste then others. Both are wonderful publications, and in my opinion, complement each other nicely. Remember, it wasn't that long ago we had no magazine dedicated to 027 and 0.
Harris Spanier
lionelsuperotrack I don't understand how anyone can honestly complain about CTT or OGR. Certainly some issues are more to one's taste then others. Both are wonderful publications, and in my opinion, complement each other nicely. Remember, it wasn't that long ago we had no magazine dedicated to 027 and 0. Harris Spanier
It's easy, when they cost $40 for 9 issues. I don't know about you, but my money tree died a LONG time ago. So I have to make a choice in train mags. CTT has had, overall, better articles and reviews FOR ME than OGR. I gave CTT a chance for 1 year, then OGR for one year. Of the two, I prefer CTT, so I am going back to it. Plus this forum has a lot to do with my choice too. Dep
Dep I basicly do one year of OGR then One year of CTT back and forth as I like them both and just can't justify both at one time because of the cash out put also. I like both but like you I prefer this forum. Just seems a more polite forum to me now with that said we do have a our moments here also.
rtraincollector Dep I basicly do one year of OGR then One year of CTT back and forth as I like them both and just can't justify both at one time because of the cash out put also. I like both but like you I prefer this forum. Just seems a more polite forum to me now with that said we do have a our moments here also.
That sounds like a good method. I'll see what happens in the next year. I'm not really locked into either one. But overall, CTT has had more interesting stuff for me.
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