QUOTE Model Railroader is a good magazine. They do have some good articles and best of all they are enthusiastic about the hobby. It's a breath of fresh air compared with the stuffy one upmanship of RM and co.
We've covered this before, but there's no harm in thrashing it again:
British Railway Modelling is the most improved local magazine by far, the photography is outstanding and the content is excellent and interesting. They now have a regular DCC page and there's a nice balance about the magazine. From being my third choice it has now reached the top of the tree, and I've renewed my subscription.
I've stopped buying the
Railway Toddler on a regular basis although I concede they have at least put an effort to improve. Certainly the photography is outstanding. More effort needs to be put into the content, perhaps an injection by expert pages might spruce things up. This is down to the editor, who in IMHO
doesn't do a true professional job it's rather a case of continuing a tradition. "Times are changing" " so shake it up a bit Peco. They do have the largest support base from advertising, and they do an excellent job of publishing dates for exhibitions and swop meets.
Model Rail has no largely become a modern traction magazine. The editorial comment has sunk to new low levels of garbage and recycling. Model Rails physical pages are are printed on very poor quality paper. The worst I've ever seen. It does seem to be treading water these days, will it improve ?. Perhaps it's time for a new editor to breath new life in it's increasing jaded pages. I've renewed my subscription, but it's on probation this time.
Model Railroader. This is everything British magazines are not. It has an extensive on line forum and promotes on line trading in books and education material in an almost aggressive way. The magazine always features DCC related articles, good reviews, and yet seems to reach every level of modeller. As stated it does have it's own brand of enthusiasm a factor missing from some British magazines. It has regular features on layout design and the support drawing are outstanding.