Cover and tentative TOC

 Here's the cover and a tentative Table of Contents.

- Editorial - Turn a small track project into a large one
- Laying track on the KCT
- MicroEngineering track 101
- Track ballasting tips
- Track is a model too
- Painting and weathering turnouts
- Build an operating switch stand
- Constructing a helix
- Poor man's jig-built turnouts
- Improving an Atlas crossover

Expected release date is June 2018, price to be about $29 list, but introductory price $19.95 + S&H.

At the risk of posting too

At the risk of posting too much I will provide feed back. Joe your collection of articles by topic will likely be a valuable addition to the modeling hobby.

Ornery wink and grin

Each book ...

Following books...

I really hope you do one of some of the best layout tours.

I'd buy that for sure!

Paperback...

Will there be... ummm... < looks sheepishly> maybe some hard back special editions? You know... to hold up better in my home library?

a quetion i have is will

a quetion i have is will writers that get featured be payed a second time or get a copy. this doesnt affect or effect whichever it is me but am curious

First time publication vs subsequent publication

Good to know

I know of a unnamed competitor magazing ahemmrrahem tends to reuse a lot but not with any compensation for articles i didnt think it would be muchi really feel like mrh is much more generous to both its writers and readers.

Unfortunately, some authors ...

Author compensation...

As someone who wrote a thing, I never even thought about it... I would be too busy telling all my friends "OH! COOL! LOOK! THAT'S MY NAME!!!!"

A free copy would definitely make me happy... if ever the thing I wrote made it into one of the books. (though, I doubt it would... it's small, and there is so much better content out there in MRH-Land)

Back cover of Volume 1 on Trackwork

Overseas shipping as

Overseas shipping as well?

Phil

Yes, but ...

Yes, but ... overseas shipping has become extremely expensive. It's $20+ US, and on a $20 book it doubles the price. Yikes!

If you want to pay it, we'll ship it.

P.S. This book will also be available through Amazon, and as a huge bulk shipper, they get superb overseas rates. If you buy the book from them, you'll pay ~$6 for shipping.

Now this book will be

Now this book will be different than the run like a dream series?

How different?

This Best of book is reprints of articles in the first 99 issues of MRH. It's pretty much construction tips by various authors. Not much regarding performance.

The Run like a Dream series is a very targeted collection of how-to's on getting optimum performance out of your trackwork, rolling stock, locomotives. It's distilled collection of 50 years of hobby experience on my part, plus research to collect the best tips in the hobby around preventative measures, as well as diagnosis and fixing known problems.

I hope there'll be more!

I've already asked, Joe, but I really hope you do a book on the layout visits. Those seem to sell quite well for the mainstream magazines (on both sides of the pond), so surely there's a market for that. You've covered some layout other magazines never touched, and with way better photography than many.