When will the June issue of MRH become available?

Irv

Here is an interesting little article on the advances made in energy efficiency by the railroads.

http://blog.american.com/2011/05/energy-fact-of-the-week-trains-and-gains/

Regarding mpg for trains, there was an answer posted by engineer Al Krug on his website regarding that.  15,000 tons of coal being hauled up a 1½% grade by 6 SD-40's is about 48 feet per gallon of diesel.

We've got several sponsors who are thinking of leaving us and the reason given is universal:

"We never hear MRH mentioned by our customers, so it doesn't look to us like sponsoring MRH matters."

I'm reluctant to name names because I don't want to deluge a sponsor with emails that look like desperate last minute "shills".

The general point is very valid, however. For this venture to have a future, it's *vital* you mention MRH when interacting with advertisers.

We can't stress this enough.

Here are the official release dates for the May 2011 issue of MRH: