Don't discount Model Railroad Hobbyest e-zine. They get 35,000 to 40,000 unique downloads per issue in the winter months. They are, by a huge margin, the greatest single point of contact in all of model railroading world wide. It's a good mag. People actually build something rather than just buy, plonk and take a pic.
Chris Borgmeyer Re: Great Model (S) Railroads Posted by: "Bob Werre" [email protected] gpnrr Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:48 am (PST) Everyone, We've hashed this out on this list before, and I've expressed my views. Jeff and I have had a few conversations about this also. I've also had the wrath of one BOT member come down on me, so I won't say too much. But since I've retired from my responsibilities with the NASG, I will add a few words. Either we join the model railroad community or we don't. If we join we are actually three segments, sometimes with only a thin thread between us. These three segments might require different approaches or simply ignore one or more segments--but with our size organization we really can't cover all three. If we join the community we would obviously compete with N, HO, O, G & and their variations for 'shelf' space. If we go our separate way (Dispatch or S Gaugian) there is no competition but we could also go the way of Beta video cameras rather quickly. I don't think we have a Steve Jobs to come back out of retirement and put us on top! I did a quick study of the publications some months ago. The coverage of Model Railroader is much greater than another other publication by a long ways, although their readership has declined like the rest of the magazines. So if the purpose is to blanket our hobby with our message--there is only one choice. The middle of the road is likely to be the on-line Model Railroad Hobbist. I don't know if they're 'making it' yet because magazines tend to loose money for several years. They are so the most economical and most hungry for meaty stuff. However. if your doing it by chipping away at the other scales, then any publication including historical, NMRA regional publications and even local clubs are worth looking at. One can never know if any effort or $$ invested will pay off until sometimes years afterward. One thing is pretty much guaranteed, however--doing nothing is setting a course to oblivion Bob Werre [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
