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[quote user="Steven Otte"] And on the topic of MR staff man-hours -- we have ways of dealing with that. For one thing, MR isn't the only thing we work on. There's also annual issues like Great Model Railroads and Model Railroad Planning, usually one other special issue a year, a project railroad to build, taping videos for MRVP, etc. Each month, in addition to the articles for the regular issue, the staff usually prepares and edits one to three articles for what we call the contingency or "tornado issue." That's the group of pre-edited articles that, if a disaster were to strike like a tornado hitting our building, we could pull out and put together into a regular issue while regular operations were restored. Articles generally stay in the "tornado bin" for three to six months before being rotated into a regular issue of MR. In months where there's extra work to do, like crunch time for an annual or an extra-big anniversary issue, we work on fewer contingency articles and maybe pull more articles out of the contingency file for publication. We then replenish the contingency file in slack months. You don't really need to know any of this, and it's not even particularly relevant to the topic of this thread, but I think people like to know these behind-the-scenes kind of things. And it keeps people from making their own erroneous suppositions. <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote] I find it interesting.
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