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Trackside Perspective
By Robert Kluz, Ztrack Editor
From the new issue of Ztrack Magazine
March 12, 2019
The cost of an article... circa 1986
Well the old clothes closet was way overdue for a good purge. Apparently some of the clothes I have been storing for the last few decades are no longer in fashion. I so don’t get that... But anyway, I did find one t-shirt that I have been storing for the last thirty-three years. What made this shirt so special you ask? It was payment for the very first article I every wrote on Z scale.
See, back around 1986, I submitted my very first article to Märklin in the hope it would run in their ‘Hot Tracks’ newsletter. For those of you who have been doing this for a long time, you may remember this publication. It was the pre-cursor of the Märklin club today. Well, Märklin elected to run my article. I was elated! Seriously folks, I was so excited. And the best part? I got this great gift! It was an official Märklin T-shirt!
What a shirt it was. It was white, with red trim around the collar and sleeves, and the Märklin logo in red. I use to display it proudly by my...
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