Another magazine falls

[gmpullman]

I was bitten by the garden railroad bug in the late '90s.

IMG_1129 by Edmund, on Flickr

LGB, Aristo-Craft and USA Trains were three of the "big players" back then. One of the big frustrations was coupler compatibility. Yes, Kadee has a large selectoion of replacement couplers but the compatibility of mounting, for me, was still an issue.

After several remodeling projects I've taken up all my track and actually built a large shed to house the equipment. At 64 I don't know if I'll ever get around to ever laying any track again.

Depot_view by Edmund, on Flickr

I doubt I'd get 10¢ on the dollar if I wanted to sell it off.

Cheers, Ed

[SeeYou190]

My interest in building a garden railway came and went pretty fast.

When I had the landcape curbing put around the house 15 years ago, there are "balloons" that are integrated into the design that were intended to house the loops of track.

It never went anywhere, and now I have funny looking landscaping..

-Kevin

[NVSRR]

Garden railways magazine has come to an end. It is a Kalmbach publication. Last issue is in the Fall. I do believe that is the last of the large scale magazines.  The upside should be an increase for MR as those rticles should be appearing there again.  When Kalmbach bought GRM, the large scale articles mostly moved to GRM.  Wonder how many readers know that magazines like that need articles from the readers to keep going? To make it worth while for advertisers to spend the money to advertis.  Maybe MR should put a half page notice in the issues to be a reminder and way to get more contributions. 

 

I have a locomovtive that is scratch built.  The orginal article appeared in GRM in the 90's by the original builder.   It has since traveled the world (literally) and is in my hands undergoing an extensive rebuild.  It needed it bad.   I was hopeing to write it up and have that appear in GRM along with the story of its travels.

 

Shane