Welcome We've all been
waiting for this!
Welcome to the official Live Steam magazine website
– the one place you may go to enhance your enjoyment of our
in-your-hand and on-your-shelf, full-color, fabulous,
bi-monthly, steam and metalworking hobby publication.
Over the course of 40 years, Live Steam has reached
readers in all parts of the United States and the world, bringing
people together who may otherwise never connect – to share
the fascinating history of steam technology and to build a great
store of knowledge upon which all newcomers may draw.
Other great steam-related websites exist and thrive. Each may rightfully
take credit for the informative and colorful ways they've contributed
– joining Live Steam magazine in strengthening
this great hobby, now burgeoning with enthusiasts and growing larger
every year. We cannot hope to "outdo" the creators of
these beautiful websites. What we can do, we trust, is offer variety
– valuable research tools and innovative features
that appear nowhere else.
Our headliner is subscribers' Number One most-requested research
tool: a comprehensive index of the articles that have appeared in
Live Steam magazine. Phase I (1990 to the present)
can, for the most part, function as a "shopping list";
available for purchase are nearly all back issues from 1990 to the
current publication. Phase II (to follow soon) will begin with 1989
and reach back to the first years of Live Steam and
its predecessor, the "Live Steam Newsletter."
Many visitors to the Live Steam website will be members
of associated clubs and historical preservation groups. Fundraising
is a vital facet of growth for many of these organizations. Money
subsidizes expansion, and expansion attracts new members. For the
most basic of requirements, money enables maintenance, and maintenance
assures a safer facility. The Tiemaker facet of this website
will provide tangible help for the raising of funds. Share your
own club's successful ideas; we'll present your fundraising photos
and drawings in this special department.
The Steaming Bay, our Live Steam Bulletin Board System (BBS), is divided into three areas of interest:
- Any Time, Any Place, Any Gauge (railroad-related topics)
- Collateral Steam (all steam-related topics other
than railroad, such as news about steamboats or conversation
concerning home steam power generation)
- The Tiemaker (lively fundraising chatter to augment the pictorial department of the same name)
Visit each location – start a new thread or join a subject already
in progress. Make this internet stop a frequent one.
Prospect a year of Live Steam in review, consult the
calendar, check the advertising rates, shop for a bestseller!
We hope that, next to the copy of Live Steam magazine
that arrives in your mailbox every other month, this new, every
day, all day Live Steam magazine website will be
the handiest tool in your home.
Clover McKinley, editor
Live Steam magazine
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