To directly answer mwb's question, the March, 1965 edition of Traction and Models says it is Vol. 1, number 1. I expect that was the date it went out to shops and subscribers. The next issue was April, 1965...later on, the cover date had little relation to when Traction & Models actually went on sale. Jones was notorious for being late, sometimes by several months...but he published a good and much needed magazine. I wish there was a similar magazine published today for the traction fans among us.
Thanks!
Yes, a lack of timeliness was eventually an issue and some of the later issues clearly exhibit that fault as issue number and date varied quite a bit from the actual date on the interior of magazine.
Still, an excellent source of information and I wish I could find the rest of the copies that I am missing.
As for a similar magazine today - unlikely as the numbers of subscribers probably is not adequate to support a stand-alone publication. The owner of OST and I had several discussions about that becoming a viable a publication and dropped it for that numbers reason. OST still does publish O scale traction articles!!!
