WOW!! I have just recently purchased a digital subscription and have been reading the back issues from the beginning. Quite the history lesson! I am glad you include these and it really adds value to your subscription offering. Thanks again.
Rolland
@PGentieu posted:Runs 125 and 126 also have great articles on the Delta Lines. Reviewing everything that has been published from all sources, I would put runs 108 and 125 at the top of the list for anybody seeking a definitive history of the Delta Lines: Run 108 covers the Delta Lines during its existence and Dr. Sam Sach's article, "Delta Lines: The Final Chapter" in Run 125 is the authoritative source on the ultimate fate of the Delta Lines.
3/19/20 - To make this complete, there is also the video "Frank Miller's Delta Lines" on the Video Digital Library page. This includes video of an interview with William Harry, one of the original Delta Lines' crew who took advantage of the lighting a TV station had set up to take the only known color slides of the Delta Lines. This is also the only video I have seen of William Harry.
For Frank Ellison and Delta Lines enthusiasts, another issue of note is Run 141 from June of 1995, with the article, "The Model Builder, Lionel's O Gauge Magazine" by Jeff and Janet Madden. Frank Ellison's name appears 26 times and "Delta Lines" appears 13 times. A few quotes: "Many Lionel archivists, paper collectors, and advertising freaks will have a field day poring over over these issues in search of historical interest material. Fans of Frank Ellison's Delta Lines will also be in seventh heaven." "To me, the outstanding constant throughout Model Builder's existence was Frank Ellison." "The complete Model Builder collection becomes a gold mine for Ellison and Delta Lines enthusiasts." "Even today's O gauge operators and collectors would enjoy reviewing Ellison's copious articles in Model Builder, as most are as germane to the hobby today as they were then." "When my MB collection was finally complete, I determined that Frank Ellison was the glue that had held the magazine together over the years."
@Randy Harrison posted:...is there an alphabetical index of articles encompassing the entire 50 years? If not, there should be.
THERE IS!
CLICK HERE to see the All-Time O Gauge Railroading Magazine Index, from Run 1 in June of 1969 to the current issue. Type anything you want into the search window that comes up and you will be amazed at what you find! If you discover an issue you would like to have, they are all available, either in hard copy or a digital download. Just click on "BUY."
As an example, here's the search for "Delta Lines."
This index is updated with new information every time we publish a new issue.
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I had forgotten about this thread. Thank you PGentieu for the information on Frank Ellison in Model Builder.
Rich, thank you for the information on the search feature on the All Time OGR Index. I need to make use of it.
@Rich Melvin posted:THERE IS!
CLICK HERE to see the All-Time O Gauge Railroading Magazine Index, from Run 1 in June of 1969 to the current issue. Type anything you want into the search window that comes up and you will be amazed at what you find! If you discover an issue you would like to have, they are all available, either in hard copy or a digital download. Just click on "BUY."
As an example, here's the search for "Delta Lines."
This index is updated with new information every time we publish a new issue.
BRAVO, Rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is GREAT!!!!! Thank you for remembering my humble suggestion. I trust that this will be continually updated?
I don't want to seem picky, well maybe I do. Until all of us old people over 60 die and stop buying hard copies I am not sure the Magazine can survive with digital only subscriptions. I may be wrong but I am pretty sure the net revenue from hard copies and the adv. revenue it generates is still positive.
The other option is that the net revenue from hard copies is already negative and through the addition of digital only perks you are trying to break the old age bad habit of buying hard copies. If that is true let us know and we will consider evolving.
Bill, the missing piece in your hypothesis is the high cost of printing the magazine and the postage to mail it. They are huge line items in the budget! With a digital subscription, there are no printing or postage costs associated with it. The digital subscription is a fixed cost item.
The gross revenue from print subscriptions is still much higher than digital subs because there are more subscribers to the print than there are for the digital. That is slowly changing as we see the print number remaining essentially flat, while the digital number is growing.
We would prefer that new subscribers sign up for a digital subscription, both because it's better for OGR, and because a Digital Subscription opens up a lot more perks for you in the form of back issue access and the OGR videos hosted here on the forum.
I used to hate digital version of any publication. Now it is my preference for all but newspapers, so that I don't have a stack of old magazines taking up space in the house.
@Randy Harrison posted:BRAVO, Rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is GREAT!!!!! Thank you for remembering my humble suggestion. I trust that this will be continually updated?
Th index is updated every time we publish a new issue.
Rich, I really do understand the issue. I used to own Video Stores (9). Life was great right up to the time it was not. The question, especially for a small business, is do you want to be the last guy making an excellent Buggy Whip.
Us old guys pretty much do the same thing over and over. Trying new things does not come that easy. I am confident that when the lines on the chart begin to cross you will tell us and then we all will go this new fangled digital route. Me, I have just never met a pixel that I trusted.
@Bill DeBrooke posted:...I am confident that when the lines on the chart begin to cross you will tell us and then we all will go this new fangled digital route. Me, I have just never met a pixel that I trusted.
I literally laughed out loud when I read, "I have just never met a pixel that I trusted."
My advice would be - DON'T FEAR THE PIXEL! They're very tiny and can't hurt you. 
