My electronic expertise is such that it doesn't take much to seem advanced...
Blackstone is offering HOn3 built-up freight cars relatively reasonably, and
even K-27's (and, I think, other D&RGW locomotives) with DCC at prices
that are roughly equivalent to most of the mass-market standard gage HO
power, so it becomes less and less to possess construction and research
skills, nor even the deep pockets needed for brass (which still needed
painting in the old days).
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> I agree with you on the beginner part, except that I would consider the
> electronics articles now also beginner type, not advanced any more. It's
> more buy this stuff, maybe weather it, and put it on your layout, which
> looks like everyone else's layout. That's why HO seems to becoming "How
> Ordinary", except for the maybe those who model the 1920's or earlier. As
> we all seem to agree, RMC is more the general magazine for model builders.
> Maybe it's because Bill S. is really a narrow-gauger (On3), and the minority
> scales and narrow gauge seem to be the last hold-outs for model train
> builders. Even HOn3 is becoming mostly RTR.
>
> Dave Heine
> At the risk of piling on, it is almost twenty years since I let my MRR
> subscription lapse after over twenty years previously either
> subscribing (later, when I could afford to) or buying individual issues.
> There seem to be essentially two constituencies: the
> highly advanced electronic types and beginners and those who never seem to
> progress much beyond beginner-level (I am
> reminded of the old story where the employee complains about someone newer
> being promoted over him, saying he'd had
> twenty years of experience there, and the supervisor tells him, no, he's had
> one year of experience twenty times).
> When the dust settled from paying college tuitions and such I did resume my
> subscription to RMC and have not regretted that,
> not just because RMC does seem to take S scale seriously but because their
> editorial policy favors those who like to actually
> BUILD locomotives, cars, structures, and scenery. Anachronistic, perhaps...
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