Definitely more "Railroads You Can Model" articles. I don't know why we haven't seen more of those articles.
Class 1 and II railroads have spun many ROWs off over the past two decades. There are numerous shortlines and regionals that have popped up since MR has done a meaningful, in depth article about railroads that operate under the visibility of the big players.
Articles from introducing the railroad, to conceptualizing a trackplan, to building a project layout or a module section of the trackplan. It could all be tied together in a series of articles spanning a year.
Both MR and RMC used to do those types of articles in the past.
There was a recent article about a private layout modeled after the Georgia Northeastern RR. But that was a few pages and was written by the owner, primarily to explain his layout. I'm talking about a more in depth discussion of the real railroad and then a layout concept developed in depth, all led by the staff writers.
- Douglas
Hi!
My first MR issue was 12/55, and to one degree or another I've enjoyed every issue since then. Anyway, I was thinking....... what new articles would I enjoy reading? So here are a few of mine, and why don't you add yours......
- Locomotive Olympics = steam and diesel categories, fastest off the line, fastest top end, strongest puller, etc.
- Reprint of popular segments = over the years, there (IMO) have been special articles of various kinds that might be refreshing to today's reader.
- Revisit layouts highlighted in the past = gotta say I'm partial to 40 - 50s railroading - especially showing the ATSF and ICRR. Over the years there were some really nice layouts shown, and I would love to revisit them.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central