I just jointed and am interested in when the magazine is published. I see the July/August issue is coming up, so how many days/weeks do I have to wait to see it published?

Thanks,

Mark

We're discussing the possibility of taking MRH to monthly in year 3 ... but for it to work, we would need to alter our strategy somewhat. We're forever free, so that wouldn't change!

The change to allow us to go to monthly is to split the current bi-monthly magazine in two. Today we do circa 150 pages per issue - if we went monthly, we would target something like 80 pages per issue, so the total page count across two months would go up slightly (150 now, 160 as two 80 page monthly issues).

If you look at the print magazines, here's their size for the current month:

I purchased "222 Tips for Building Model Railroad Structures(eBooks)" and "303 TIPS for building model railroad structures and scenery(eBooks)" by Dave Frary.  I found the PDF books to be helpful and discovered at least two dozen new ideas so far.  The only downside I've seen is some info is dated (a problem with all publications) and the tips are sort of randomly covered without a good index of them.  With a PDF file the articles can be searched, so the information can be found.

Rick

My beautiful bride has given me the o.k. to expand my railroad into the 15-1/2' x 29-1/2' unfinished area of my basement!  My existing railroad is in a finished room in the basement and features drywall on the walls (9' high) and ceiling.  I will be removing the doors on the finished room and exand the layout by going through the walls into the unfinshed area.  I plan on finishing the walls with drywall and paint and had originally planned on using a suspended ceiling.