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Offline Ranjit  
#1 Posted : 15 June 2021 07:32:57(UTC)
Ranjit


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Hi All... What do you all do with the hard copies of Märklin Magazin, Insider Club News, catalogues, CDs, DVDs, postcards, posters, leaflets, etc. after you have read them ? Do you keep them, and put them away in magazine holders or do you dispose off the hard copies except the current ones and rely on the archived online versions ? Do they all have any value ?

By the way, is the #03/21 out already ?

Cheers,
Ranjit

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Offline Eurobahnfan  
#2 Posted : 15 June 2021 17:04:53(UTC)
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I have binders and slip cases full of both the Insider Club News and Maerklin Magazine going back about twenty years. I don’t usually hang on to the catalogs and leaflets, as they take up so much more room. I really should just scan them all and store them on CD or in the cloud... I’d have more room for trains!
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Offline Tom Jessop  
#3 Posted : 16 June 2021 01:32:03(UTC)
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I have a collection of Railroad model craftsman dating back about 45 years & similar age of Aust Railway Historical Society History magazines & also numerous copies of different other magazines about rail . I do occasionally go back to delve to find a article of intrestI am after . We expect to move house in the next 2 years to a apartment being built on the Waterfront in the city where we are now & the question is what to dispose of . second hand bookshops are not interested as they are only after books , Historical groups already have enough back publications for future customers so it looks like the tip for most of it . There are another 3 walls of books also to take care of which we have brought when overseas . All up about 8 meters x2 meters high . decisions have to be made about what to keep & what goes in the recycling .

I would like to see "M" change their ways on their magazines so that they are available on the web using a password so that members could always have access to them at any time & include the original "M" magazine from years ago which was far better in content to what is available now days. Quite a few groups have taken advantage of this type of distribution either free or minimal cost .


Cheers Tom in Oz
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Offline kimballthurlow  
#4 Posted : 16 June 2021 08:52:43(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Ranjit Go to Quoted Post
Hi All... What do you all do with the hard copies of Märklin Magazin, ...
By the way, is the #03/21 out already ?

Cheers,
Ranjit


Hi Ranjit,

I used to keep my model train and railway magazines (English and US stuff as well) with a self-written index, but it became too much for the storage available in my home.
I am an Insider so get all the Marklin publications.

So now after reading I give them all away to:
1. a local model train club, or
2. my local Marklin dealer who can distribute or sell them as he wishes.

I occasionally scan an article or two to keep it if I see a future need.

regards
Kimball

HO Scale - Märklin (ep II-III and VI, C Track, digital) - 2 rail HO (Queensland Australia, UK, USA) - 3 rail OO (English Hornby Dublo) - old clockwork O gauge - Live Steam 90mm (3.1/2 inch) gauge.
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Offline grnwtrs  
#5 Posted : 17 June 2021 01:02:30(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Tom Jessop Go to Quoted Post





I have a collection of Railroad model craftsman dating back about 45 years & similar age of Aust Railway Historical Society History magazines & also numerous copies of different other magazines about rail . I do occasionally go back to delve to find a article of intrestI am after . We expect to move house in the next 2 years to a apartment being built on the Waterfront in the city where we are now & the question is what to dispose of . second hand bookshops are not interested as they are only after books , Historical groups already have enough back publications for future customers so it looks like the tip for most of it . There are another 3 walls of books also to take care of which we have brought when overseas . All up about 8 meters x2 meters high . decisions have to be made about what to keep & what goes in the recycling .

I would like to see "M" change their ways on their magazines so that they are available on the web using a password so that members could always have access to them at any time & include the original "M" magazine from years ago which was far better in content to what is available now days. Quite a few groups have taken advantage of this type of distribution either free or minimal cost .


Cheers Tom in Oz


And.........Like a good Maerklin Fan, you have at least 1 catalog from the ? 1940's, if not from before, along with the intermittent (new items, spring items, etc literature (sp) that you have not addressed?

Maybe you will end up , during your otherwise fun retirement years? on Ebay selling off your excesses from the hobby.Laugh Laugh Laugh Laugh Laugh

I also worry about that fateLOL

best regards, gene
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Offline Ranjit  
#6 Posted : 23 June 2021 08:45:01(UTC)
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Thank you all for your replies, Steve, Tom, Kimball and Gene...

After some thinking about conserving space and reorganization, I have decided to dispose off some of my Märklin / Faller / Vollmer / Kibri / Noch catalogues. The items are:

1. Faller - 90/91
2. Vollmer - 90/91
3. Kibri - 96/97
4. Noch - 98

5. Märklin Digital News - 2003/2004

6. Märklin / Minitrix / Trix - Summer New Items - 2020
7. Märklin Fall New Items - 2020
8. Märklin New Items 2020
9. Märklin Fall New Items - 2019
10. Märklin Summer New Items - 2019
11. Märklin New Items - 2018
12. Märklin Summer New Items - 2018
13. Märklin New Items - 2007
14. Märklin Summer New Items - 2006
15. Märklin Fall New Items - 2006
16. Märklin New Items - 2006
17. Märklin New Items - 2005
18. Märklin New Items - 1998

19. Märklin EXCLUSIV - 1998 + 04/2004 + 01/2005 - 04/2005 + 01/2006 - 04/2006 + 04/2020

If any of you are interested in any of these catalogues, please let me know latest by Wednesday, June 30, 2021. I can have them mailed to you. If there is no interest, I shall be trashing them by July 01, 2021.

take care and stay safe.

Cheers,
Ranjit
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Offline Ranjit  
#7 Posted : 01 July 2021 06:44:17(UTC)
Ranjit


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Hi All... Just a quick note to say that I have trashed all the above publications as there were no takers.

Take care and stay healthy.

Cheers,
Ranjit
Modelling in HO Scale - Era III & IV. K+M Track, Analogue + Digital
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#Get Vaccinated
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come" - Victor Marie Hugo
"If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney
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