magazine recomendation for 6 yr old

You've picked up the right magazines. A subscription to either (or both) will be a good start.

-- Why isn't there an Ozone Hole at the NORTH Pole?

The photos are good, but most captions are beyond a six-year-old. Still, I can't think of any other magazines that fits Vicki's request.

Mark. Five kids in six years. Continually changing diapers since December

1998. Struggling to finish a Branchline kit since 2004.

You're BOTH nuts!

These replies are amusing and helpful. Thank you, all. Since I seem to have already found the likely candidates, I guess I'll just get around to seeing which magazine come our more often or something like that, or who will take my subscription online and make this easy for me.

On a related note, I wonder if most adult railfans were railfans as children, or if many of you here came to your hobby as adults? Just curious. :-)

Vicki. Married DH May, 1995. Ima shel Stubborn, born 11/99; Chatty, born 5/02, and Snuggly, born 9/8/04. Pregnant, breastfeeding or both since February 1999.

*** I guess I'll just get around to seeing which magazine come our more often or something like that, or who will take my subscription online and make this easy for me. On a related note, I wonder if most adult railfans were railfans as children, or if many of you here came to your hobby as adults? Just curious. :-)

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A subscription to Railfan & Railroad Magazine for less than $3 an issue:

I've been a railfan since I was a toddler and I'm almost 71 now. My father liked traina and we lived close to a PRR freight line with GG1s galore. I had a mechanical train when I was about four and a Lionel electric when I was six.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

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thank you, bill. actually, right now Railfan & Railroad Magazine is a bit cheaper at their website. they say: Special 30th Anniversary Subscription Rates

12 issues for $29.95! (whereas amazon has it for $34.95 for 12 issues).

it is considerably cheaper than TRAINS, which is 12 Issues for $42.95 at their website.

is that "Special 30th Anniversary Subscription Rate" likely to be unavailable soon? perhaps i should subscribe sooner than i planned ...

Vicki. Married DH May, 1995. Ima shel Stubborn, born 11/99; Chatty, born 5/02, and Snuggly, born 9/8/04. Pregnant, breastfeeding or both since February 1999

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote: [...]

I can't recall a time when I did not like trains.

Not at all! That's what we're here for, as you can tell from the replies you've already received.

Whoa!!! You might want to get your *husband* interested in a different hobby...

Just Kidding, Steve

Ah, Mark, they won't be 6 years old for very long! While the words may be beyond them today, next year they probalby won't be and they will probably get there sooner (and go farther) because of their desire to read the words and understand them. In addition, there really isn't anything better on the market for the kid anyway unless you consider Thomas the Train stuff and that is severely limited in usefulness at that age.

-- Why isn't there an Ozone Hole at the NORTH Pole?

you gentlemen are funny as well as helpful. you do all seem to be gentlemen though. is this a male-dominated hobby? i guess i wouldn't be surprised if it is, but by how much, i wonder? i wouldn't say i qualify as a railfan, but i do think trains are mighty cool. i am surely part of (most of?) the reason behind my son's love of trains. i was the one pointing them out and driving him to see them all the time. :)

as for my spouse, luckily for us both we are very compatible. smile.

anyway, on a more related note, from the skimming i've done of my son's magazines and from what i've seen here, railfanning starts in childhood. it makes me wonder if my little boy will be a lifelong railfan. i assume there are conventions to attend for those who enjoy this? there would be toy conventions, to see modeling stuff, and on the web i've seen video footage from groups that get together and videotape trains going by. are there other things railfans do in large groups?

thanks again!

- Vicki. Married DH May, 1995. Ima shel Stubborn, born 11/99; etc, etc, you know the rest :)

Yep, this is a pretty male dominated hobby. Wives tend to be the scenery finishers if they get into it at all. I have met several women tho that are in the hobby and my most memorable one was once when I was at Knott's Berry Farm (a Disenyland type operation and not too far from Disenyland) where they have some of the old D&RGW equipemnt that they run around the park carrying attendees - with the mandantory train robbery and all. She was in one of the many shops and there was one of the old movie viewers that you looked into after putting a coin in. The movie was of some UP trains doing runbys and while she was looking in the viewer, she exclaimed "Oh, look at those big black beaurtiful things!". Needless to say, the shop became quite quiet for a moment!

-- Why isn't there an Ozone Hole at the NORTH Pole?

" snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Some of both. I got a basic Lionel set at 6, but just dabbled at it then, even though I loved it. (No support from a Dad who wasn't interested in anything that didn't involve catching fish or killing woodland creatures.) But the basic love of railroading was there, instilled by a grandfather who worked for L&N for over 50 years.

18 years ago, I built a small layout for my own boys (now 30 & 24), but neither one of them caught the fever. Now that I have time, space and just enough room in the budget, I'm getting back into the hobby at nearly 60. I just hope I can infect the grandkids with the RR bug.

Stevert wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ifyoucan.net:

Hmmm...that's getting close to the remark that got Groucho Marx thrown off of TV back in the '50s!

Well, I'm not on TV, it's not the 50's, and the OP seems to have taken it in the humorous vein it was offered, so hopefully I'm okay. However, I will add the emoticon that I so obviously missed the first time around. :-) :-) :-)

Stevert

Stevert wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ifyoucan.net:

My remark was not a criticism, just a reminisence of a hilarious ad-lib that no one would think twice about now, but that got a big star suspended back in a somewhat more straight-laced time. Sorry if you misunderstood my intent.