January 13th, 2009 -
At 1:48 pm Pacific Time today, Model Railroad Hobbyist passed 10,000 downloads!

With the completely free to readers and advertiser-supported business model, these early circulation results bodes well for the future.

Since back issues always remain available for FREE download, the audience for Model Railroad Hobbyist should grow year after year.

Issue 1 Release:

January 10, 2009!

Model Railroad Hobbyist has set the release date of its mediaZine premier issue to the 10th of January 2009.

The issue will only be available to subscribers on that date - the issue will not be available to the general public until two weeks later on January 25th.

If you don't want to wait to get your free magazine download, subscribe today! It's completely free, because MRH is totally advertiser supported.

The issue is over 100 pages and some 70 megabytes in size. This issue contains literally dozens of videos and interactive goodies!

Yes, subscribe me!

The Model Railroad Hobbyist December newsletter is now available! Each month, catch some of the latest industry news, scuttlebutt, and rumors in our monthly newsletter, read announcements of upcoming events, plus get some sneak peaks of content coming in Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine.

Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine is pleased to announce our newest sponsoring advertiser - Litchfield Station!

Model Railroad Hobbyist announces their new monthly newsletter! Each month, catch some of the latest industry news, scuttlebutt, and rumors in our monthly newsletter, plus get some sneak peaks of content coming in Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine.

Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine has conducted the October 31st online shopping spree random drawing using a random number generator from among 3949 subscribers.

The random number generator picked these subscriber numbers:

Winner:

2258 - subscriber ID: mechanic

Runner-up:

2487 - subscriber ID: Javier Martinez

Joe announced and demonstrated the unique new MRH mediazine at the NMRA National in Anaheim this last July. The quarterly magazine, to debut January 2009, is completely free to modelers since it's totally sponsored by hobby vendors.

Athearn® Trains has just announced they have purchased select tooling from T55, the plastic division of Overland Models. T55 is one of the model railroading industry’s leading producers of high-quality injection-molded models. Using T55’s tooling, Athearn states the Genesis line will soon be producing a run of General Electric GEVO (ES44AC and ES44DC) models, as well as EMD SD70ACe and SD70M-2 models.

These prototypes are the most current locomotives from North America’s primary builders, and are found in the fleets of Union Pacific (including the Heritage Fleet and Bush Presidential Library and Museum), BNSF, CIT Leasing, CSX, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, EMD Demonstrators, Ferromex, Florida East Coast, GE Demonstrators, Kansas City Southern, Montana Rail Link and Norfolk Southern.

Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine has conducted the August 31st online shopping spree random drawing using a random number generator from among 2656 subscribers.

The random number generator picked these subscriber numbers:

Winner:

1573 - subscriber ID: lyalwalker

Runner-up:

882 - subscriber ID: Pete2210