Status of the October MRH and Running Extra.

Both are just getting through the final staff review now. We will be placing ads in MRH and testing the links.

I expect MRH to hit the website in quiet release tomorrow afternoon. Give it a day plus to bake in and for any big boo-boos to be found, then we will release the final version of MRH and also post Running Extra most likely Sunday evening.

The come-and-get-it big email blast for MRH will go out Monday, Oct 5th.

Watching the MRH site update last night, not being able to post, or even access the website for a while, made me wonder if I should be backing up my blog posts somehow.

A back-up of all of my photos exists at home, but none of the text.

I frequently go back to my own blogs and topic posts to remember how I completed a given task if I have been away from modeling for a few weeks or months, and need to do it again.

In the future, if I start a new model railroad, I'm going to want that information again also.

I've noticed that Owl Mountain Models has offered a conversion kit to modify Bachmann's Baldwin 2-8-0 to more closely resemble a Southern Pacific C-8/C-9. Do any of you SP prototype experts know how close a model could be achieved by replacing cylinders, valve gear, domes etc. as per this kit? Just wondering how close the driver size and spacing, boiler diameter and general dimensions etc of the Bachmann model would scale out.

Status of the July issue ...

Look for the July issue to come out after the July 4th holiday weekend. Specific status below.