Ah, the "We need a magazine thing again..." What for? To announce the "new products"? I am not complaining, but S has been in a lull. As I sit here I cannot think of any major new S products in over a year. Billy Wade is producing his craftsman kits, as is Jim King producing his urethane kits. But at the level of something NEW, mostly from AM or SHS, something completely new coming out has been on the slow side lately.
If new anything is announced, I would expect to see it at the NASG convention, read about it here, or hear about it from Don Thompson. (Tele Thompson Tell The World!) Quarterly or worse bi-annual magazine will be very out of date for new product announcements. History has told us it is a tough road to produce a timely S SCALE printed magazine and not loose your shirt in the process for number of reasons. Which leads us to a new website. Again for WHAT? I know where there is (basically) an S Scale website. I hear it is even award winning. But it is MY website. I have HUNDREDS of hours in it. It has been cumulative over 3+ years. I would never consider such a massive undertaking like that for anyone else. Things get revised and updated whenever the mood strikes me. I would be remiss if I did not post a new article from Dick Karnes because I was not in the mood to do the update. You would also never get 2 people to agree on very simple things like what it would look like etc. As a quick side note.., I have 2 websites up and 1 more unregistered domain with www.oneandone.com for about $7.00 for month. Lesser hosting packages are less expensive. I upload MASSIVE files for sharing with people and have yet to see any ""full" messages or get charged extra. While their tech help is by far the worst in the world, and by far the worst I have ever had the extreme displeasure of dealing with, I think that is a pretty good price. I also own www.prslhs.com With the few exceptions of brief sprits of interest and contributions, my pleas for material largely are VERY underwhelming. Websites that do not get updates regularly loose interest of prospective visitors quickly. If you are depending on volunteers for submissions to keep the site fresh, you are grossly overestimating the interest in such a venture. Which leads me to the ongoing elusive SOMEBODY to do all of this work for free, and in a timely basis. WHO is going to DO all this work for free and (again) for WHAT or who to read? Will the real SOMEBODY please stand up! Anyone that is capable of doing a first class top notch interactive and visually appealing website has done it or probably is doing it for a living. Why would they want to do 1 for free? For the average working schlub (or possibly for the 2-5 lucky and able retirees on the list) contributing any such efforts would most likely cut heavily into the ever so precious modeling time that we are all allegedly using wisely instead of complaining about very insignificant things. I never seem to get enough modeling time in spite of being unemployed for the past 6 months. Like the Emperors new clothes, "Sorry I can't see them" Finally for those that do not know about it, there is the monthly "The Keystone Modeler". http://www.prrths.com/Keystone%20Modeler/Keystone_Modeler.htm It is free, has been very successful and is a great resource even for the unwashed fans of the "other roads". But it has been a large burden to the core group that produces it. And for reasons that I truly can't understand, the PRR T&HS has sold literally hundreds of CDs with 18 months of TKM on it. I guess those cunning Slobbering Pennsy Freaks have miraculously figured out how to sell something that everyone with a computer can readily get for free.... Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Importing a Brass S Scale PRR X29 & G26 http://www.pennsysmodels.com PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE (for now) http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.4/1277 - Release Date: 2/13/2008 8:00 PM Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
