I just "stumbled in" to this web site and am pleased to have joined. Very informative and I will be using information from here as I finally put my "paper dream layout" I have been carrying around for 30 years into lumber and trackwork. Yes, I'm a retired person who has been "in the hobby" almost all my life and now have the chance to do more than dream and draw.

I really enjoyed this months videos. I had been meaning to buy the DVD they came from at some point but never got around to it.

What really struck me about Joe's design was his willingness to step away from the prototype when it benefitted his design to do so. For instance, moving the branch line further toward Coos Bay. I am sorry, I don't remember the specific names.

One of our larger sponsoring advertisers came by the MRH booth at the Amherst Show today to tell us how happy he is with his MRH ad performance.

He placed ads in several of the major model railroading magazines, each with unique phone numbers. The MRH ad outperformed them all with the largest number of phone calls by a fair margin!

Kudos to the MRH readers - the more you shop the MRH advertisers first, the brighter our future as a free model railroading publication that's here to stay.

Where do your preferences lay and what made you a Model Railroader?

Many new model railroaders never experienced Steam and never were able to witness that plume of Black Smoke and steam barreling up into the morning sky and that long whistle blowing through the Valley as the engineers gave there notice of coming down the line.