In a message dated 12/22/2005 3:23:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, richchrysler@... writes: I think that the key to the success was: 1. The owner is the only person handling his

Beckert, Shawn wrote: Yep, been there and heard that in two clubs (I'm a slow learner), and reached the same conclusion. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Tim, I happened to be talking to one of the British Magazine editors at a recent exhibition here in the UK and he mentioned that MIBA apparently made a loss when they did the complete history of the

Tim O'Connor wrote: You are right on the mark. It wasn't an easy decision to go, knowing I was giving up prototype-length trains and hour-long running times. I was in the midst of attempting to model

Tony sez: Perhaps "political correctness" was not a good description; what I meant was that we were chided for objecting violently when someone handled our equipment like Playdough or coupled

FCJ was David Casdorph, with help from Eric Neubauer, Jim Eager and others. It was very idiosyncratic, but a number of issues had some very good stuff. David decided a few years ago to go electronic

Shawn I am resigned to this as a fact of life with clubs. You can't leave your best, delicate models out to be destroyed... but since it's the only place I can run an 80 car train of my own stuff

Pat, I enjoy the in-depth prototype articles you present (well, not so much the passenger stuff, but that's just me), but there's more to this hobby than just data. In your earlier efforts there were

Tim; That is probably a better idea even than for a written publication, as so much of it can be periodically updated. Have a good one, Elden

Beckert, Shawn wrote: While entirely agreeing with Shawn about what happens in clubs, I'm amused at his use of the term "political correctness" to describe dialogue that you don't like. (This

I have experienced the same problem that Greg has and would love to obtain a copy of this article. Thanks, Jeff Helm article have sold with with

Richard Hendrickson wrote Richard I agree, with one exception -- the Tichy USRA hoppers. All those wire grabs added to those scale posts is something I would just as soon skip doing myself. I've

Roger Parry wrote: I absolutely agree. I was a member of one of the larger clubs in the Los Angeles area for a dozen years before giving up in disgust. I won't go into the reasons why (there were

Ed Mines wrote: Not sure what Ed means by "story" here. They are a most miscellaneous collection of photos, obviously whatever Bill had at hand, with many oddball cars and a certain number of

feral - A most apt typo (or was it?). Gene Green Out in the west Texas town of El Paso

Pat Wider wrote: None. Well, OK, no more passenger car issues <g>. And the problem with this is...? The premier reason for buying RPC is precisely because the articles are long, extensively

Tom, Agree with all you say but would like to add a couple of points. First, writing an article can seem overwhelming until one has actually done it at least once. Second, bad experiences with

Anyone know the story of the Kratville series of freight car magazines printed around 1980? How about the "Freight Car Journal"? I subscribed (or was a member) for a while but the subject matter

Tom Olsen wrote: Though broadly true, this is most misleading. Any good editor works continually to seek out and stimulate creation of articles that are needed. I've even heard it said that any

In the far distant past (1950s) MR used to give printed cars sides similar to Champ and Red Ball slides. I don't think this would be such a bad idea for N scale. Ed