Good afternoon. In this information age that we are in we are finding out more and more about less and less. We got folks on here, in the Forum, in the NASG, course you can't find out who anymore..not in the NASG, on the Trains list, the Prototype Modelers list, the modern modelers list, the NASG list, a lot of modelers that are just somewhere and some that don't have a PC...We are back to the Lone Wolf stage we had 50 years ago. Everybody doing their own thing. Since we don't have the NASG data base any more, well it is there but your information is all you can see, and so far I can remember the three railroads I am interested in, well I think I can every now and then..But this is going to be sort of a mess there is nothing to define what we are interested in and now major changes are being made in the products and I guess they will use darts or draw names for road names on new product. The other thing is no one wants to share a name, an address or an email address to the general public...things really change 50 years ago you couldn't wait for the first Herald yearbook to see if the guy next door was an S gauger.
In doing some research before this all went away I thought it was sure strange that for example two of the roads that had the most interested people following them were Western Maryland and Atlantic Coast Line and except for the WM BL-2 decal you can't letter a diesel for either of these roads...you have a Wabash Valley shell for WM, and SHS SW9 for ACL and a FP-7 and a F Bunit for ACL from American Models. On the flip side of this if you consider there are about 200 sets of A-B units for the F-3 and F-7 out there where exactly are the 200 other MP modelers, ok 198 other MP modelers, where are the 200 Boston & Maine units and where are the 200 Maine Central units. I wonder what the 200 BM units are using for cabooses and has anyone tried to make the MP caboose cupola offset like what the MP and a couple Katy cabooses actually were. Or cut a caboose down two roof panels to make a B&M caboose and also pulled the cupola sides in flush and raised the cupola about a foot...or cut a cupola down about a foot for the Conrail and the last Frisco cabooses to conform to Northeast clearances... Do you think we could maybe get a place that would reflect our interest in prototype roads, maybe linked to a name....or a code name or maybe an ACI label and gosh if we listed a email address we could contact each other...or maybe not today but tomorrow no Wednesday the 4th..say 10:00 AM all the MP modelers pop blue smoke, and at 11:00 the Frisco modelers pop red smoke and maybe the Maine Central folks could pop yellow smoke at noon, their time..and we could sort out some of this stuff like we used to be able to do.... gale hall
