What to do with old model railroad magazines?

[Philip]

I have a collection back to the 60's I'll never sell ...sinister laughingggggggg

Philip

[Dave Buchholz]

IN particular Diagrams or blueprints can come in handy. I have a bunch of Narrow Gauge Gazette issues to "unburden what has been" lying around. But the were some Blueprints I want to copy first, before they head to Ebay.

[jbvb]

I've been having my old MRs, RMCs, Trains etc bound into books; they're shelved underneath my layout.  I should see if I can still find a binder.  If I want to get rid of any, the early December NEMTE show in Marlboro MA has a "free" area for unwanted books and magazines.  I don't recall us having any left to recycle on recent Sunday afternoons.

[Bernd]

I should open up a library. Here's a pic of all my Model Railroader's from 1963 to 2008. Gave up on MR when there was nothing but buy new and DCC articles. They lost me when they stopped printing articles like E.L. Moore used to write. Also have the same in RMC and still getting them. Have all the Mainline magazines plus the full DVD plus magazines articles for The Narrow Gauge 7 Shortline Gazette. Plus a few other from days gone by.

A picture of the MR's



Bernd

[Rick]

I know it's already been mentioned, but I gave all my magazines to the HO club I belonged to.
They give them away to kids during their open house events.

[robert goslin]

I had all the 1980's ones, 10 years complete, and many other years, of model railroader.

A local hobby shop used to have a vast collection of these 2nd hand magazines.
I went to them to offer them for free.  They told me no one wants the old ones and they had just disposed of 6 pallet loads from their stock, and a lot more to go.
I even offered them to local NMRA members, no takers.

I ended up cutting out any articles I wanted, usually only a few pages out of a whole magazine, and now keep those in a folder.
The rest of the magazine just went in the paper recycling bin.
Of course all those articles I did keep, are barely looked at, so they'll probably go in the bin eventually too.
The articles I mainly kept where by or about, Malcolm Furlow & George Sellios.

[Larry C]

I went though the same scenario a few years back. Kept a couple of 1972 MR's and a years worth of NGSL gazette; just couldn't part with the Gazettes with the shiny covers. Those I do look at every so often.