Short answer: Yes, MRH magazine is totally free, and to the degree ads pay for the production, that amount of content will always be completely free.

That said, we may at some future date also add premium paid content in addition to the free content. But our intent is to always make something we call MRH magazine and for it to always have content that's free.

We do have a donate option if you wish to say thanks to MRH for making all this content available free.

Long answer: Yes, Model Railroad Hobbyist is a completely free rich-media ezine, and we will always be making content that's 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.

This all said, we may at some future date make some premium paid bonus content as well. Regardless, you can count on MRH magazine content always remaining the best deal going for general model railroading articles and videos that have been editorially vetted. There will always be free content, but there also may be bonus paid content as well.

Our back issues library now has over 15,000 pages of material on the hobby and it's all free and will remain forever free. We do have a donate option if you wish to say thanks to MRH for making all this content available free.