I found and purchased the complete set of Model Railroader Magazine in bound volumes from 1975-79. This is exciting for me as this is the era I got into model trains (as a kid) and read these issues religiously-usually to the point they were a dog-eared mess! One of these issues has a letter I wrote that was published in their "Student Fare" column. Can't wait to find it! These volumes are in excellent condition
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What I had forgotten was the huge amount of advertisers in the magazine back then. So many companies creating great products back then. I also read a neat article last night from the Jan 1979 issue about a fellow who basically created his own DCC system from scratch using a home built computer and building his own recievers (which required a dummy locomotive to carry the large circuit board). His computer system cost him $4500 and had something like 24k of memory. He really wanted 64k!
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Yes and lots of Tyco locomotoves cheap cheap cheap. Did anyone ever order from these mail order companies back then? I remember MR did an article where they shopped at some of these huge mail order stores and had some very mixed results.
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Yes and lots of Tyco locomotoves cheap cheap cheap. Did anyone ever order from these mail order companies back then? I remember MR did an article where they shopped at some of these huge mail order stores and had some very mixed results.
Originally posted by IslandTrains - March 03 2016 : 5:17:24 PM
I wanna sees the ad for them BN PC & Conrail steam locos!
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