I got the July issue of Railfan at the local Barnes and Noble yesterday and noticed a serious goof up on the cover:
They have a photo of UP 4014 and right away I noticed the number board had an extra digit on the fireman’s side and an extra marker lamp. What they did was when they digitally put the magazine masthead behind the top of the locomotive, they did a bad job of putting the engine back over the words, so there was an overlap in that corner.
Odder still, a friend's subscription copy doesn’t have the error.
I can only assume they made one production run with the error, realized they had messed up the cover, then went back and printed more with the cover looking as they’d intended. I’ll be sure to keep this one, as I have a feeling this will be something train fans will be talking about for a while (and I now know that not every issue has the error).
I'm thinking of calling this, "Big Boyy, the race to publish"...