A Note from the Editor-in-Chief: Since Family Garden Trains started answering beginner's questions in the 1990s, folks have been asking us to put them on our mailing list so we could notify them of "latebreaking" news and of new articles being published. We also have had many folks asking us to send them product catalogs by U.S mail. For reasons why we're just getting around to this now, please see the "blog-like-article": Why We Finally Started a Mailing List. While we apologize for not getting this off the ground until now, we have decided it is "high time" to give folks the opportunity to sign up so we can all keep in better touch.

Will People Start Bothering Me?

No salesman will call. Your contact information will not be given to anyone else. No unsolicited advertisements or other spam will be e-mailed to you.

What does the Family Garden Trains™ Newsletter Contain?

If we are able to stick to our plans, you will receive an e-mail newsletter about once a month. It should contain tips of things you could (or maybe should) be doing at that time of year to improve your garden railroad experience.

Will the Mailing List be used for Anything Else?

You may also occasionally receive e-mail notices of other information you may find helpful, based on what we learn about your interests or your location from the survey below At the moment, however, we don't have the bandwidth to do to much of that, so don't expect to be inundated with such information from us in the near future. :-(

How Will I Know if I'm On the Right List?

What Else Might I Need to Know?

What About US Mail Options

In addition, we occasionally have the opportunity to send information by US mail (usually once a year or less). This may include information of regional interest or product catalogs supplied by our advertisers. if you want to occasionally receive such mailings, please, add your whole mailing address to the following form and check the "yes" box after the US mail question. Again, we will not sell or give this information to anyone else, but if a manufacturer such as AristoCraft or MTH gives us materials to send out to our readers, we will forward them to you. We don't have a "US mail" version of the newsletter, though.

Please note - Update for 2009: Sadly, every month dozens of spammers and jokesters fill out this form thinking that somehow their unwelcome advertisements or content will show up on my site (they don't). So I'm now asking people who want to subscribe to our newsletters to add their real names and SOME information about themselves and/or their hobby so we know it's it's not just a random spam attack and we won't waste time adding bogus addresses to our databases. Again, none of your information is ever given to anyone else, but we need at least to know your real name and enough other information to show that you're actually interested in the hobbies we represent. We apologize if this seems like a hassle to you, but we'd rather have a good idea of who our readers are and what they need to know than to spend time fluffing up our "subscription list" with a bunch of fake names from folks who aren't really interested in anything we have to offer.

Again, please contact us with any questions about this, and feel free to add any comments in the comment box below.

Thanks, and happy railroading,

Paul Race

Family Garden Trains