Short answer: Yes, MRH magazine is totally free, and will always be completely free.

Long answer: Yes, Model Railroad Hobbyist is a completely free rich-media ezine, and will always be completely free to download and read. MRH content is protected by a creative commons license, which is a new form of copyright that allows the content to be freely distributed as long as derivative use of that content also is free.

This means we WANT you to give copies away to all your friends, and to post content from the magazine on web sites and in forums. We give you carte blanche permission to freely post content from MRH magazine online as long as you also include a link back to this web site in the post.

Our creative commons license says that access to our content is free as long as the place you use our content is also free. You cannot, for instance, use content from MRH magazine in a Model Railroader magazine article without our permission, because that use of our content is not free.