Tony has nailed it right on the head. As saddened as I am at the passing of an iconic publication, it is myself and my fellow modelers I feel sorry for, not the publisher. He made his

As I said to FHenry Carstens on more than one occasion, the author payment issue need not be an issue. Either decide you cannot afford to pay authors, and make that announcement -- then people know

Clark, You make an excellent point about the demise. We all share the responsibility. Me for only occasionally purchasing issue with an article that hit my interest rather than subscribing, CSRM

I should have known. Subscribed for the first time in many years as the local Hobbytown USA decided to drop Model Railroad Magazines. Well, at least I got one issue out of 12. Also subscribed to

I was thinking the same as John. While deserving of all the praise, whatgood are articles about kits that are no longer available? But, Jack makes a good point. There are guys that still have

Steve Crise (on another list) wrote: Speak for yourself, Steve, but Signature Press, which advertised in every RMC issue, was billed regularly, including just last month for the June issue (the

Originally posted on Model Railroads of Southern California by author and railroad photographer Steve Crise: Don't count on getting anything back. Carstens had stopped paying contributors years ago

Jim Betz wrote (in part): As it happens, Joe Fugate worked for Kalmbach (in the area of video) back around ten years ago, and as he has stated in public, urged them repeatedly to move toward a

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Tim O'Connor wrote: "On the other hand, when I operate on the RPI club, there are literally hundreds of finely detailed, undamaged freight cars. So maybe there's a lesson here -- If you operate with

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, you forget how dirty freight cars often were in the steam era. Look at photos from before 1950 to refresh your memory. And I have possession of photos taken in those

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote: lol -- yeah, "weathering" these days seems to be synomymous with "incredibly rusted and

Clark Propst wrote: Very true. I too was asked recently by Chris to do an article, and when I asked if I would be paid, was told, "can't promise," and I knew what that meant. I did not write the

It has been a tough few months for the hobby. I too am sad to see RMCgo. It was in those pages that I first discovered Stafford Swain (later toappear in great Canadian freight car articles in MM

Dave lol -- yeah, "weathering" these days seems to be synomymous with "incredibly rusted and filthy". If you model any era before the year 1990, you might want to lighten up on the filth! :-) It's

True Tim...but I love researching my prototype and not freight cars which operated on other railroads. Ted's articles provide exactly the information I need to build a particular resin kit (which

Jack I think John only meant that in our information-rich environment, most of us can find the information we need without those articles. Which is not to say that the articles aren't good or useful

Don Valentine wrote There is no right or wrong. Any of us is smart enough to rationalize our own choices, whatever they are. But with regard to details, it is a fact that the items most likely to be

I understand what you are saying John but I still have 60 resin kits to build and many of them are covered by some of those articles. So, the tips are still worthwhile. Jack Burgess The

Exactly. Rick's article on scratch building a Southern Ks1 class consolidation was very popular. I imagine a series on steam era freight cars would be welcome to balance all the modern freight car