08-25-2010, 01:43 AM
P5se Camelback Wrote:Brakie Wrote: ... look how MR seems to be thinning down the magazine in favor of high cost "special issues".
I, too, have noticed the slimming down of Model Railroader. But if that is the way it is going to be, with more web content and less "printed-on-paper" content, I wish they would re-issue the older style binders (like those from back in the early seventies) because A) the slimmer issues in the current 4 5/8" wide binders waste shelf space and B) I could use some of those older-style 3 1/2" binders for both the rest of my seventies and early eighties yearly issues as well as for the slimmed-down current years' issues. [Plus, I might even put my slowly growing collection of Forties decade, Fifties decade and Sixties decade issues into binders so the are more accessible for research than in "magazine-sized pizza boxes" that only hold a half-year each! I keep watching for those rare Thirties issues!]
I sent them an email to the RPO Column, but I doubt anything will come of it. They are not anywhere near as responsive to their readers as they once were back in the Linn Westcott/Russ Larsen days!
I don't use their binders for any magazines. Theses are available from Staples on line. If shipped to a local Staples store for pick up shipping is free. Each package contains enough to do 1 year of issues, and all you need to get to use them is a standard 3 ring binder.
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