Back issues of Model Railroading, RMJ & PRN now online
Mark Mathu
the rights to put back issues of Model Railroading, RailModel Journal
and Pacific Rail News online.
TrainLife offers this service for FREE!
They have been adding a year of each magazine each week, so it will
take a while for them to get all of them online. So far, almost all of
the 1988-1992, 1995-1997. 2001 and 2003-2006 issues of Model
Railroading are online, as are the 1989-1993, and 1995-2008 issues of
RailModel Journal.
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Mark Mathu
Whitefish Bay, Wis.
The Green Bay Route: http://www.greenbayroute.com/
Rick Jones
> TrainLife, LLC http://www.trainlife.com/, of Orem, Utah, has acquired
> the rights to put back issues of Model Railroading, RailModel Journal
> and Pacific Rail News online.
>
> TrainLife offers this service for FREE!
>
> They have been adding a year of each magazine each week, so it will
> take a while for them to get all of them online. So far, almost all of
> the 1988-1992, 1995-1997. 2001 and 2003-2006 issues of Model
> Railroading are online, as are the 1989-1993, and 1995-2008 issues of
> RailModel Journal.
Unfortunately each issue is being put up as a bunch of individual
page scans, which makes for a LOT of downloading and saving to get the
full issues. While I applaud them for all of their extensive work in
doing this, it would be nice if the scans were combined as a PDF for
each issue.
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> On 2/20/2011 10:56 PM, Mark Mathu wrote:
>> TrainLife, LLC http://www.trainlife.com/, of Orem, Utah, has acquired
>> the rights to put back issues of Model Railroading, RailModel Journal
>> and Pacific Rail News online.
>>
>> TrainLife offers this service for FREE!
>>
>> They have been adding a year of each magazine each week, so it will
>> take a while for them to get all of them online. So far, almost all of
>> the 1988-1992, 1995-1997. 2001 and 2003-2006 issues of Model
>> Railroading are online, as are the 1989-1993, and 1995-2008 issues of
>> RailModel Journal.
>
> Unfortunately each issue is being put up as a bunch of individual page
> scans, which makes for a LOT of downloading and saving to get the full
> issues. While I applaud them for all of their extensive work in doing
> this, it would be nice if the scans were combined as a PDF for each issue.
>
Which is real easy to do with decent scan software. My combo machine came
with software that will do this automatically.
Rick Jones
And I could load all of the pages of an issue one by one into Open
Office Writer and then do a PDF export, but it's still a lot of work to
download all of the scans and do that.
Again, not trying to denigrate the wonderful service they are
providing for us.
--
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their hive.
ray
> On 2/20/2011 10:56 PM, Mark Mathu wrote:
>> TrainLife, LLC http://www.trainlife.com/, of Orem, Utah, has acquired
>> the rights to put back issues of Model Railroading, RailModel Journal
>> and Pacific Rail News online.
>>
>> TrainLife offers this service for FREE!
>>
>> They have been adding a year of each magazine each week, so it will
>> take a while for them to get all of them online. So far, almost all of
>> the 1988-1992, 1995-1997. 2001 and 2003-2006 issues of Model
>> Railroading are online, as are the 1989-1993, and 1995-2008 issues of
>> RailModel Journal.
>
> Unfortunately each issue is being put up as a bunch of individual
> page scans, which makes for a LOT of downloading and saving to get the
> full issues. While I applaud them for all of their extensive work in
> doing this, it would be nice if the scans were combined as a PDF for
> each issue.
Noted - but - each scan is on the order of 256k bytes. An 88 page issue
would be over 23mB - do you really want to have to do a 23mB download if
you're only interested in a page or two?
Wolf K
The scans are *.jpgs, and pretty small ones at that. I would prefer
PDFs, but still, as a reference source, the collection is pretty good.
Wolf K.
ray
They are indeed jpg images. I downloaded some, and they vary in size from
17k to over 240k - really all over the map so it's difficult to say what
an 'average' size might be. Mostly, I'd prefer the individual page scans
- I guess the best of both worlds would be to make it available either
way.
Rick Jones
I lean towards wanting the entire mag and not just the articles or
plans that interest me at any given moment. Especially since my
interests could change and what doesn't interest me now may interest me
later but the resource here might be gone by that time. And like old
Walthers catalogs, even the pages of just ads might be of interest for
historical reference.
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worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and
inefficient than the public knows... We are today not far from a disaster."
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ray
You can always download everything that's there. wget -r will do the job
if you're running Linux - for others I can't say, but there should be a
similar utility.
Bernhard Agthe
On 02/21/2011 04:21 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
> And I could load all of the pages of an issue one by one into Open
> Office Writer and then do a PDF export, but it's still a lot of work to
> download all of the scans and do that.
Easier:
Copy them all into one directory and make sure, the file names allow
listing them in the correct order (e.g. pg001.pdf, pg002.pdf..)
Then open a terminal ("cmd" on windos systems) and navigate to the
directory ("cd mr_01_01").
Type the following:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH pg*.pdf
You'll find the file out.pdf which contains all pages (pg*.pdf) in that
directory after a minute or so.
Much faster than using any GUI program ;-)
> Again, not trying to denigrate the wonderful service they are providing
> for us.
>
Yes.
Have fun.
John Carter
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:53:02 -0600, Rick Jones wrote:
>
>> On 2/21/2011 10:02 AM, ray wrote:
>>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:25 -0600, Rick Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/20/2011 10:56 PM, Mark Mathu wrote:
>>>>> TrainLife, LLC http://www.trainlife.com/, of Orem, Utah, has
>>>>> acquired the rights to put back issues of Model Railroading,
>>>>> RailModel Journal and Pacific Rail News online.
>>>>>
>>>>> TrainLife offers this service for FREE!
>>>>>
Yes it is free, so accept it as is. I for one am only interested in
specific articles and to have to D/L a whole issue for just a single
article is a waste of bandwidth. Besides, I am not interested in
reading ads from a decade ago, which is what you are getting.
Maybe some of you who would like other fotmats might want to make a
donation to help TRAINLIFE offer alternate formats ? A valuable
resource like TRAINLIFE should be supported so that it doesn't end
up having to fold for lack of funds, or need to REQUIRE paid
subscriptions.
Just my opinion.
Lobby Dosser
Agreed!!
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> TrainLife, LLC http://www.trainlife.com/, of Orem, Utah, has acquired
> the rights to put back issues of Model Railroading, RailModel Journal
> and Pacific Rail News online.
>
> TrainLife offers this service for FREE!
>
> They have been adding a year of each magazine each week, so it will
> take a while for them to get all of them online. So far, almost all of
> the 1988-1992, 1995-1997. 2001 and 2003-2006 issues of Model
> Railroading are online, as are the 1989-1993, and 1995-2008 issues of
> RailModel Journal.
And to find the issues you want, the index is back:
Twibil
>
>
> Ever wonder why doctors, dentists and lawyers have to Practice so much? Ever
> wonder why you let them Practice on You?
Because it's usually better than the alternative.
Mark Mathu
>
> Copy them all into one directory and make sure, the file names allow
> listing them in the correct order (e.g. pg001.pdf, pg002.pdf..)
>
> Then open a terminal ("cmd" on windos systems) and navigate to the
> directory ("cd mr_01_01").
>
> Type the following:
>
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH pg*.pdf
"gs" (ghostscript) isn't a command installed on most PCs.
Robert Heller
But it can be trivially (and freely!) installed.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
>
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