Railfan & Railroad

Well; I guess there goes the remaining year I had on my R&R subscription.  Hopefully someone will be able to step in and resurrect it.  Rich; you listening?  ;-)

Curt

Very sad news, to be sure!  I have fond memories of various Carstens publications dating back many years, and in recent times really enjoyed their On30 Annual, as well.

Curt, I appreciate your vote of confidence, but I am not the right guy to try to resurrect R&R. While I have an interest in railroading I am not a "railfan."

 

I hope someone can step forward and rescue those magazines, but it won't be OGR Publishing.

Oh, man, this hurts!  Bought my first Railroad Magazine in Feb 1957. Always liked the publication; alas, was not a subscriber, rather bought at the newsstand. With Hal Carsten's death, guess the driving force of the business left. Suppose Railroad Model Craftsman goes, too. The Crash of 2008 takes another business with it. A real shame.

Railroad Magazine dated back to 1904 of continuous publishing.

Sorry to read the news about Carstens ending it's company business last week. I have been a subscriber to Railfan and Railroad Magazine for 35 years. Hope another publisher can continue to publish it's magazine soon. Their website is still up as of today so you can read the articles there that were in the June issue that was not mailed out to subscribers according to a friend who is a long time friend and advertiser in Railfan and Railroad Magazine.

Looks like R&R was purchased by Kevin Eudaly of White River Press.  If he combines his CTC, TRP, and R&R the result would be a magazine with a fair amount of volume and distribution.

 

 

Kent in SD

Source? 

 

Link to announcement?

 

The official announcement with more information...

http://www.modelrailroadnews.c...s_Release_140829.pdf

       
       




An email from Steve Barry.


Kent in SD

Good news about White River Press and R & R.  Guess my recent subscription payment won't be going to waste after all.  Realizing, of course, that R & R had really big competition from the big "K", I always found a lot to be of interest in R & R.  I subscribed to both for many years.  I like all of the departments in R & R, including the traction section by George Smerk and by Jerry Brookins before him.  The big "T" tried a brief, not very informative traction section but discontinued it before everyone got used to it.

 

I'll keep my subscriptions to both magazines, (along with OGR) but I think that R & R might have been a better book even though it was generally smaller.  Good news.

 

Paul Fischer

And my June issue of R&R came today!

Curt