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          f you look at the smaller scales like N and Z, notice that
        
        
          those scales each have their own magazine, and in fact,
        
        
          N scale has
        
        
          
            two
          
        
        
          (count them, two) magazines.
        
        
          We believe it’s pretty clear that the scales who now have their
        
        
          own magazines, namely N and Z scale, have largely siphoned off
        
        
          most of the small scale modeling readers from
        
        
          
            Model Railroader
          
        
        
          magazine. Then there’s the narrow gauge guys who have their
        
        
          own magazine in the
        
        
          
            Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette
          
        
        
          .
        
        
          If you take all the readers who now have their own magazine
        
        
          and add it back into MR’s circulation numbers, we bet you will
        
        
          get a much larger number.
        
        
          Finally, if you add back in all the non-subscribers who now rely
        
        
          on the internet, we think it’s possible the total number of mod-
        
        
          elers could approach or even exceed the top circulation num-
        
        
          bers of
        
        
          
            Model Railroader
          
        
        
          when it peaked in the late 1980s and
        
        
          early 1990s.
        
        
          MRH has an advantage because we’re free: the only cost for
        
        
          checking us out each month is a little time.
        
        
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            Notes from the
          
        
        
          MRH Staff
        
        
          Caring about small things, exciting new things
        
        
          coming to TMTV, best
        
        
          MRH online iPad reading
        
        
          experience, and more ...
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
          MRH-Jul 2014