Large Scale Railroading Magazine

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Large Scale Railroading Magazine; New (fairly new) mag from the USA
Topic Started: 8 Sep 2009, 07:57 PM (66 Views)
Rhylmr	8 Sep 2009, 07:57 PM Post #1
Ticket Collector Posts: 73 Group: MRMT Trustees Member #325 Joined: November 21, 2007	I'm not selling it, visit www.largescalerailroading.com for subscription and contact details. The short answer is that if the USA scene of ‘grand scale’ railroads interests you, you should take the trouble to buy this magazine. It isn’t easy to get hold of as the publisher has as yet no facilities to take payment by credit card or ‘paypal’. But there’s a lot of content in each issue, 54 pages in issue three, of letter size in colour with high quality production. What of the content? The editor, John Sayre, owns a railway of his own, and seems to have gathered quite a select group of contributors. The magazines cover news, railway write-ups and historical features; all of the subjects are in the US, and most seem to be of larger gauge rather than 7Ľin or 7˝in gauge. There are few tips about ‘how to do it’ but the editor has ruled out long serial articles, such as those which often appear in ‘Live Steam’ magazine. In the US there is lots of large scale railroading history still unwritten, and it is here where this magazine’s contribution is really going to be noticeable, judging by these early issues. When in 1997 Greg Robinson started publishing the ‘Grand Scales Quarterly’ magazine he created a sense of community amongst his subscribers which was quite special. People were playing trains in different parts of the US who until then were oblivious about others with common interests to theirs. Alas it is now some time since the last issue of the GSQ was published, although it may yet come back if not in paper form. Like the GSQ, it is clear from reading these Large Scale Railroading magazines that they are a total labour of love for the editor and his family. Compared to the usual diet of more about less, they are a breath of fresh air about what crazy train nuts can get up to when they’re living the American dream at the same time. Much of interest lies here.


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