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Gabe - <br /> <br />Back in the day TSL was an excellent magazine on short lines. It was run by an extremely knowledgeable gentleman named Garreth MacDonald. Unfortunately, "Mac"'s health worsened and he decided to sell TSL. It was sold to Guy Brenkman, Chairman of Pioneer Railcorp, a family of midwestern short lines. As MC correctly points out Mr. Brenkman also operates several exotic entertainment venues. <br /> <br />Prior to the sale TSL was a thriving magazine with a wide variety of contributors many in the railroad industry. It also innovated many ideas that have since been copied by others including TRAINS. One example was the "Box Score" concept showing a listing of new startups and abandonments. TRAINS uses this concept now (See for example page 15 of the March 2005 TRAINS with the box entitled "Abandonments & Acquisitions" which is similar to the old TSL layout. <br /> <br />At this point, I don't think there is much left to TSL that is worth buying. Many of the contributors have spread to the winds when they saw the direction TSL took post sale as quality declined including both photos and text and the new management struggled to understand how to put out a better quality product. I saw an issue recently, and although it has improved in terms of photo quality much of the text relies upon news from Pioneer's own lines and a small network of contributors. Also, much of the publication includes items I get from the web from a handful of web groups including this one. Not much value there to be worth buying in my opinion... <br /> <br />LC
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