From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 8/29/2014 8:50 AM, conklin wrote:   
   > "Benjamin.Kubelsky"  wrote in message   
   > news:ltotbp01gma@news4.newsguy.com...   
   >> I just read that Carstens Publications is going out of business. This is   
   >> the publisher of "Railfan and Railroad" and "Model Railroad Craftsman" and   
   >> some other title about model planes.   
   >>   
   >> R&R deteriorated a lot over the past 5 or so years, particularly after   
   >> Curtis Katz and Jim Boyd passed away. I let my subscription go a few years   
   >> ago, partly due to the state of the magazine and partly due to my not   
   >> having time to get through what I had. I'd pick up a copy here and there   
   >> on a newsstand, and enjoyed some of it.   
   >>   
   >> Sorry to see it go, but I guess the combination of losing key people, the   
   >> general decline in paper press, and, I gather they suffered a lot of   
   >> damage at their headquarters from Super Storm Sandy.   
   >>   
   >> Regards,   
   >>   
   >> DAve   
   >   
   > Sorry to hear that.  I still enjoyed Railroad and Railfan but I did miss the   
   > monthly column about the O&W.   
   >   
   >   
      
   White River Productions bought the magazines and the mail order book   
   store.  Look for R&R to resume soon.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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