From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 9/2/2014 3:11 PM, conklin wrote:   
   >   
   > "Michael Finfer"  wrote in message   
   > news:_v2Nv.93275$Wt5.70281@fx01.iad...   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > Good to hear this.  The June 2014 issue of Railfan and RR just arrived   
   > today, with a spread on the Streamliners at Spencer, an evenr I attended.   
   > it was a good "last" issue.  I had renewed my subscription not long ago and   
   > the label showsn an expieration date of Feb. '17.  Where did you hear about   
   > White River?   
   >   
   >   
      
    From someone else in my NRHS Chapter, and the press release is right on   
   the main page of White River's web site.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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