I ha ve said it before and I'm gonna say it again; if there is going to be ANY division of any kind, there needs to come some sort of CHANGE along with it (no relation to Obama's rubles). The change I'm talking about is, in fact, a CORRECTION... a change from using the inaccurate term- GAUGE to the correct term- SCALE. A simple division of the NASG web site is NOT going to make a big enough statement (if one at all)... something much bigger must take place. So... dare I say this again ... w hy not change the name of the NASG to the NASS- National Association of S SCALERS!? All you AF fans like to contend that your AF models are, indeed 1/64 "scale"... so if that is true, then you should n ot mind such a change. The web site would not need to be divided, just given a well needed, refreshing face lift and name change ... a refreshment that could go a long way to refreshing the views that non-S modelers have of S. C hanging the name of the association... a change that would, at least, surely be written about and otherwise publicised throughout the railroad modeling community as a whole... would definitely cause people to at least be curious about, and/or to ask about what is going on.
Mere divisions will NOT work... we already have them in place to prove that - see the various divisions of the ACSG for example ( http://www.trainweb.org/acsg ), nevermind the large number of yahoo groups (which are divisions in and of themselves ). And that is my Imperial 2 cents worth. John Degnan [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:56:20 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} New NASG Website My own website is devoted to my scale layout, but I do have a separate page for American Flyer that can be clicked to. I explain why it's separate. Maybe we don't give the average MR enough credit to know the difference between toy trains and scale trains. No trouble with O. You either have 2-rail track or 3-rail. Maybe if AF ran on 3-rail track it would make education of the masses easier <G>. Ed L's suggestion is not a deal breaker. If the web master of the new NASG site keeps the home page free of lobster claws and provides AF info through special tabs or links, it should work out fine. Now that Sam Powell has joined our local NMRA division (South Mountain, MER), we now have THREE S scalers actively participating in the division. Each of us has done clinics at meetings, etc. Richard Lind does an exellent newsletter and I do the website making sure that S is well represented without bugging the HO membership. Check it out at www.smdnmra.org I've tried to encourage more participation on the MRH site for the same reasons. Every time you post something on your blog there or comment on other blogs, you promote S scale. With the loss of another S scaler to N scale (a lack of room problem), I'm the only S promoter right now and I'm sure that seeing the same old people doing the posting does little to get others excited about S. We need lots and lots of scalers participating in such venues as the NMRA or MRH to make much of a difference. If we don't, six months from now, we'll recycle the same discussion. Jeff's proposal is a chance to do something or get off the pot. We should get it done and then tackle the job of promoting it. But first: "Get Er Done"! Roy Hoffman --- In [email protected], "scale S only" <scalesonly@...> wrote: > > Hi Ed (L.) -- > > That’s the kind of input we need. Whether or not it will get implemented, > I can’t say, but I think it is a good idea. I will pass it around the BOT > and to Jim B. I think what would happen along these lines is to have the > home page indexed with a tab for scale and another for hi-rail, and another > for AF. What I would like to see for a home page is something similar to > the PBL site (but easier to use). Any thoughts on that? > > Thanks! > Bill Winans ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [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/
