Price of January MR?

To Railfan, et al: Model Railroader magazine now is also on the Web, and I do not think you can get it any cheaper! The url is in the magazine you have in your possession. :-)

But you sure don't get much - the online version is NOT the whole magazine - it's just "added content". You still have to buy the hard copy to get the magazine!

Frank Eva Digital Railroader

Bob - According to Kalmbach the higher price is a one-time thing because (they claim) the January issue has a lot more pages than the typical issue. I do note, however, that this 70th anniversary issue is the smallest in number of pages since the 45th anniversary issue decades ago...and they never charged extra for those intervening bigger issues. Nor can I say that I found anything exceptional in the January '04 issue compared with some of the earlier examples...just a great many additional ads. Hope they do a better job when the

CNJ999

December 2003 - "$4.95 * 6.95 Canada"

January 2004 - "$5.95 * 8.95 Canada"

Bill MacIndoe

Reason enough to stop buying MR!!!!!

I have noticed that the price of MR has been bouncing up and down, seems to go up when they have a bigger page court/special issue.

I worrk at a hobby shop, so I notice price changes

-Hudson

Jan 2003 issue was also a buck or two more than others. The price will come back down in Feb, though it's still too much in my view. I stopped subscribing years ago & only buy an issue every once in a while.

Bouncing up and down? Not likely. The cover price for all of the 2003 editions has been $4.95 per cover. Add to that the annual "Great Model Railroads" and "Model Railroad Planning" were $5.95 the previous couple of years until the

Dave Henk Hobby Oasis

Wow... how can you say that? Scratchbuilding interlocking tower rods? Scratchbuilding passenger cars? A huge story on the Altoona Museum layout? Handlaid track tips?

Man, I thought this issue, and the December issue (with the Combine scratchbuilding article), was exceptional. Perhaps the best two issues of MR for over a decade or more. More like the MR of the old days.

-Gerry Leone

=>Wow... how can you say that? Scratchbuilding interlocking tower rods? =>Scratchbuilding passenger cars? A huge story on the Altoona Museum layout? =>Handlaid track tips? =>

=>Man, I thought this issue, and the December issue (with the Combine =>scratchbuilding article), was exceptional. Perhaps the best two issues of =>MR for over a decade or more. More like the MR of the old days. =>

=> -Gerry Leone =>

Just enjoy the hobby. :-)

Wolf Kirchmeir ................................. If you didn't want to go to Chicago, why did you get on this train? (Garrison Keillor)

The January 2003 issue was the same as all the other 2003 issues ($4.95 US, $6.95 Canadian).

How can people make up such blatantly incorrect facts that are so easily checkable?

Yup.

Lucy to Linus in a Peanuts strip: "This is a birch tree. Someday it will be a mighty oak."

It's purty easy, actually, but don't expect to have even a smidge of credibility once you do it.

Texas Pete

Guess I got ripped off on my Jan issue. Do I need to send you a receipt?

The politically correct term is "Recto-Americans."

R. Boone, the Elder Bon Vivant, Raconteur and Occasional Microferroequinologist

My January 2004 issue shows $5.95 US and 8.95 Canada. Wouldn't take much in the way of tax to make it over 10 bucks.

You must not be looking at the mag I saw, which IS more expensive per the cover. How can you make up such incorrect facts that are so easily checkable?

I suspect there is some fun in the fact that the mag that is generally being talked about is Jan '04 but is being commented on as Jan '03. :)

Boy, and they say AOL is uncouth? A few folks (myself included) post what we paid for MR and get called liars?

Season Greetings to you too. :-(

But not for 1/2003. I suspect you meant the current issue, 1/2004. If you paid extra for Jan of this year you got had. I just dug it out and looked at the cover :-).