An interesting idea Coyote. I'm not sure of the status of the old physical copies of Railroad magazine. I know we have some, but I don't know how many. As always, it comes down to money. Being formerly involved with Model Railroading, I can tell you that the CD books they offer were fairly easy to do as they were digital to begin with. I can also tell you that the sales haven't lit the world on fire.
Conversely, digitizing old magazines is both time-consuming and expensive, so we'd have to be convinced we could sell enough of these. I will talk with the Railfan editor @ our weekly conference call and get his take on the idea.