============================================= Charles Vlk wrote: ...there are too many enablers now that are just prolonging the agony! --------------------------------------------- The "enablers"

Hi Gene--it's been a long time! The story of the NMRA contest official excluding your model because it didn't conform to a flaw built into the system shows just how absurd things can get when an

I no longer read ANY magaznies. Don

Here's another perspective on "publishing reviews that call a spade a spade"..... I have been on the receiving end of criticism as to errors and compromises in products (having worked for

From the posts I could change NMRA to AFA and MBSI and the surrounding prose would still reflect accurately. My point is that you are fighting human nature which is pretty much the same as fighting

Hi All, Thought I would chip in with my 2 cents worth from this side of the Atlantic. I got into American modelling about 5 years ago after 15 years modelling British pre-WW2 in O Scale. In both that

Al- The for the past 30 years the NMRA has done nothing except moan about declining membership. It is not a great benefit as an umbrella organization....it has not had the sense to recast itself in

The NMRA never was in the "Enforcement" business.... The thing that made the NMRA work in the first place (and the thing that the "Foamers" in their vests drove out) was a cooperative relationship

Tony Thompson wrote My thought is way wait until then. The ball is rolling for a new movement in the hobby. It has been shown in the PMers meets across the country. There are enough people

While I concur with just about everything said here regarding the NMRA (see my Editorial about it on the web site, drafted about a year ago - link below) I must point out one major positive of the

Gene I have two problems with your statements. First the contest "official" who refused to let you enter an O sclae car because it was to Proto48 standards was wrong not to allow you to enter

guaruba@... writes: Don, The Amarillo Railroad Museum has been advertising in Model Railroader for about three years and have never had one of the examples you mention above happen to us,

With the great increase in subscribers perhaps it's time to redo this poll Tim. Dave Nelson

As was pointed out previously, the application of the name "Fowler" to any boxcar is a contemporary phenomenon. As I understand it, the Fowler patent related to the attachment of the siding to the

I don't know if the current organization will have to go bankrupt in order to cut ties with the current economic structure (obligation to provide the NMRA Bulletin, for example)..... but it is clear

This is one of my favorite subjects. You guys should't be so harsh on a bunch of old men playing train engineer and wearing strange clothing. It is there hobby. Too bad that they can't go off and

I am happy you brought it up, Brian..... Geezers, 53%, Whippersnappers, 47%..... not bad when you consider the Baby Boomers should be tipping the scales anyway!! If you take the premise that we

I've got a real freightcar question. In 1949, SEABOARD had for small classes of boxcars designated "A" through "A2". These cars are separated from the much larger AF classes. Classes A---A1 have