I have not purchased MRC or MR for about 15 years, in my opinion it is the same authors, same articles, and the attitude of you have to have this or your not a real model railroader, along with your layout has to be masive or its not a real model railroad.. one thing that is killing the mags here in western Canada is their price. When the Canadian dollar was not worth very much agains the US dollar they listed the Canadian & US prices. It use to be about a $3.00 difference, now that the money is even, they still have the same difference in price but have now dropped posting the US price and have kept the Canadian price very high. I know many modelers around here refuse to pay the inflated price, couple of the hobby shop owners in the area say they have had to cut down their orders as very few of the mags are being sold. With the bad pricing, same content, attitude, and such high number of adds no wonder they are having problems selling their product. Just one persons observations...Ron..