why no preservation magazine in the USA ??

Ted Miles · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:09 pm

I want to expand on the Railway Museum Quarterly briefly mentioned above.

They (Assoc of Railway Museums) set out to fill some of the gap lewft by the loss of L&RP>

The orginazation is by intent composted of mainly traction museums.

But the editor likes steam museums too. I have a ten year run of RMQ now and I plesently surprised that it has lasted as long as it has! Aaron Isaacs has a good turn from both pictures and words.

If you do not read Railway Museum Quarterly then you should!

There are other individual museums that publish good work well. On the steam side I like the Mid Continent Railroad Museum Gazette. And the traction side has the Seashore Trolley Museum Dispatch. For both you might read the Orange Empire Railway Museum Gazette which covers both.

Ted Miles

NH0401 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:43 pm

robertmcdowell wrote:

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Companies now can do "print on demand" of single copies of your book for prices (with your markup) comparable to bookstore prices. I'm not sure magazines can do that yet, but they can certainly publish in .pdf for free. Would you pay $12/year for 6 issues of L&RP issued on .PDF?

HP offers a service that prints a 16 page color magazine for a flat rate of four dollars.

The above comments beg the question:
Will two bucks (or four) a copy for LR&P allow for payments to authors ??

DPK

car57 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:27 pm

This is all well and good, but the whole idea of a magazine is to collate news from all these societies and museums for the benefit of all those interested in preservation, steam, diesel, trolleys, whatever. But who can afford these days to join all these different museums just to get the occasional newsletter........its not feasible.

mike

Dave · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:46 pm

Dan and Karen Ranger are actually TRAINLINE out bimonthly in a timely way - and with news that is actually somewhat still newsworthy. I don't know how many people actually have news to contribute - based on my contributing editor volunteering here, very few it would seem - but TRAINLINE might be the obvious choice for small news items in hardcopy, and I'd be thrilled to be a lot busier helping RyPN contributors put briefs and articles together.

Maybe we have no preservation magazines because nobody in preservation wants to talk about their work?

dave

Chris125 · **Joined:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:46 pm **Posts:** 1

o anderson wrote:

And I have a question back to you, is there something like RYPN in the UK? I joined a preservation oriented yahoo group called ukhrail-workshop but it is almost as dead as a doornail. If there is a forum where the restoration people talk, I would like to see it and learn about on-the-ground experiences on the other side of the muddy pond.

Hi

The best comparison to RYPN would probably be National Preservation which covers just about everything. However there are hundreds more specific forums such as the many yahoo groups, but these tend to be railroad specific - for example this one for the under-restoration Welsh Highland Railway.

Chris

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2127

Given the economic situation right now, I don't expect that a new magazine on preservation would be a very high priority with any publisher. Friends at several ongoing preservation projects tell me that donations have just about dried up. The next couple of years are going to be very difficult for all preservation activities.

PC

car57 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:39 am

Perhaps donations have dried up because none of us know about the projects that need the donations !! This is the whole point again of some kind of national magazine.
We have had all sorts of people and companies here in Cheyenne offer and donate towards our car 57 project but only because i am constantly reminding via newsletters, newspaper, visits and talks. People cant help but donate if they want me to shut up and leave them alone for a while !!

mike

Cheyenne