Essay
What single step can give bring joy to your spouse, your
local fire marshal, model railroad advertisers, and others? The answer is
clearing out that multi-decade stash of model railroading magazines you have in
your basement or elsewhere.
Admit it, you will never get to build all the possible ideas
contained in these issues. And now that MR is available digitized you have no
excuse to keep those back issues. If buying into the digitized route is not
your cup of tea, then you can simply save a few back issues that you simply
must keep for modeling reference. Another alternative is to clip out a few
articles that you absolutely cannot part with.
Give model railroading a shot in the arm by getting your
back issues of MR into the hands of the young or the merely curious. If you
don’t have the energy to do so yourself, ask some of the younger members of
your club or round robin group to lend you their muscle. Once you get them out
of your basement, then what? You can take them to your club, share with members
of your house of worship, your fraternal or service organizations, your local library,
or your local consignment shop that supports a local charity. By doing so, we
all can help introduce another generation to this wonderful hobby of ours.
Remember, with the demise of both the local hobby shop and the traditional
newsstand, fewer folks can get their introduction to the hobby by those routes.
How many articles have we read about a model railroad in which the owner
attributes his introduction to the hobby by his buying a model railroading
magazine at a newsstand? We cannot turn back the clock, but we can make an
effort to see that our back issues do good.
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