Yep. 63 pages, only 2 Ask Trainses, one page of fantrip, only a little of News & Photos.
All I can ask is, why?
When I first pulled the March issue out of the mail, I noticed its thin state.
I believe the ad count is way down, especially it you don't count the Kalmbach ads. There is only 7 total pages of non-Kalmbach ads, not counting the 3 pages of classifieds/misc small ads at the rear.
66 pages seems to have been a long time standard for Trains 20+ years ago, let's hope this is only a temporary visit to the past.
Jay
....That's unusual. No protective cover on mine.
I did like the article on restoring of depots. But the mag. does seem a bit "thin" this month, down from the normal roughly 80 pages.
And the KCS business train article was interesting too.
Quentin
stevewf1 wrote: ouengr wrote:I was really dissappointed. I receive 'free' professional journals that are more sumstancial than that.Yes. When I pulled that issue from the mailbox, at first, I thought it was perhaps a special advertising issue or maybe a bonus issue.But it wasn't.Probably something to do with the weather there - I hope...
ouengr wrote:I was really dissappointed. I receive 'free' professional journals that are more sumstancial than that.
Yes. When I pulled that issue from the mailbox, at first, I thought it was perhaps a special advertising issue or maybe a bonus issue.
But it wasn't.
Probably something to do with the weather there - I hope...
I, too, thought something was wrong when I picked it up the first time. Apart from the cover having smudges all over it (no protective covering anymore), it felt light as a feather. Just 64 pages! I flipped through it to make sure that no pages were missing, but none were. In the news section, just one page each for Technology, Locomotives, Passenger and City Rail, when there's usually two. And just one Gallery photo, when there's usually three or four.
For fourty-some bucks a year, I would expect Trains could do better than this. I just hope it's a one-issue thing. If it persists...I don't know. Maybe I'll quit buying their DVD's they keep sending me...
I was really dissapointed. I receive 'free' professional journals that are more substantial than that.
Disappointing issue. Maybe its all the snow.
Only 64 pages...
"Ask Trains" featured only two questions and the "Gallery" featured all of one picture.
I "re-upped" my subscription recently, but if this is the future of the venerable TRAINS magazine, I'll have to think about subscribing next time...
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