Question about OGR Back Issues

Ouch!

You have touched on an area where we have not done a very good job cataloging  our back issues. I am working on a Filemaker Pro database for just this purpose, but it is a LONG way from being of any use to us.

I can, however, do a "back end" search for some things. Specifically what product were you looking for?

Rich,

Boy, am I glad you answered him about this.

Every once in in a while I can remember  when we did a product review or article on a certain Lionel piece, but it is catch and catch can.

Ed Boyle

Partner

Special Projects Editor

O Gauge Railroading magazine

Hi Rich,

I wanted to see if you did any reviews on the Lionel Post War Celebration Series.

Specifically the Texas Special and Southern F3's.

Of course any Post War Celebration review/article would interest me.

Feb 2000 OGRR has a review of the Texas Special PW Celebration Series F3.

Review by George Brown.

August 2001 Collectors Gallery features the PW Series Congressional Set.

I am so glad to hear about this work in progress. It might take a while before the members can access it, but once it's all done we'll have a massive library we can search for items of interest.

Thank you for undertaking such a time consuming project. In the end it will be a phenomenal tool.

Thanks Ed!

I am a premium member now, so I should be able to find them in the Digital Library or if not at least order the back issue.

Update: Ah ok I have to buy the Digital Archive set.

Could you tell me what run both of those are?

The store doesnot indicate the month only the run.

Thanks

There have been some online indexes for model train magazines that come and go.

This one has OGRR from 1969 to 1995.  It is not fancy, and you should read the Help file to do proper searches, but it does list the contents and will search on key words.  It also has a plain text file covering those issues.  You can do a windows search on the file for keywords, or just browse all the issues.

The Trains.com magazine index unfortunately does not include OGRR.

Thanks, Rich for your effort to do an online index of OGRR.   It is an incredibly tedious and time consuming task.  Another option is to crowd-source the project.   This is what was done in the index I linked above.  It allows readers to submit the index information from their magazine collection.  50 or 100 motivated readers could do this fairly quickly.  The downside, is loss of quality control.  But generally people that are interested in such a product tend to do a good job.

Also you should be able to import the plain text file, which would take care of your older issues.

Bob

Chipset - Feb 2000 Run 171, Aug 2001 Run 181

Thanks Ed!

Ed,

Thanks for your help.

I remembered last night that Jim Barrett and I did a Collector's Gallery on the PWC Wabash set.  Will spend some time this week end to get you the exact issue. think I may have done a couple of more stories like that. I will check.

Ed Boyle

Thanks Ed B and Ed H!