WOOHOO! LHS hooks me up!

[Tom]

Some may think this is sacreligious but I cut out the articles I want and place them in three ring binders sorted by interest. SO I have scenery binder, drawings, prototype information. This way if I need something I just grab the binder look through it go from there. I have also beenthinking ofplacing the articles of interest in plastic sleves and then I can take them out and use them on the benchwork. When I am done I could place them back into the binder.

This also keeps from having to keep hundreds of magazines taking up valuable space for more kits!! It also makes all those other magzines people collects more valuable

Actually, I think that is a GREAT idea.

Being a RR Museum, we get cases of these things dropped off at the museum all the time. They're EVERYWHERE. So, we pretty much distribute them everywhere but the ladies room and it is fun when sitting down in an office or breakroom to grab a bottle of water and cooloff to thumb through an old MR, Trains, or RF&R. I did that last weekend with an old early 80's issue of MR while waiting for my sister to decide how she wanted us to switch her special charter private car train that was visiting and they were reviewing train sets by Tyco, Bachmann, Model Power and AHM. Pretty neat little nostalgia trip, I had three of the sets that were comparted in the article when I was a kid.

I used to stock pile old magazines to save for down time or modeling ideas; I LOVE to read. But when you live in a 1 bedroom apartment and can stand anywhere in it and see a train magazine without turning your head... it's time to get rid of them. I put them in a box and gave them to my brother. When done with them, he gave them to our nephew who gave them to the museum. Sometimes folks come into the giftshop and ask "how much"? I just tell them to promise never to bring them back, we have too many as it is, and they smile and carry a fistful of them out and EVERYONE ends up happy.