Hi Gale and all --
It is indeed unfortunate that the NASG has been forced to restrict access to
the member data base. HOWEVER, that does not prevent one from using the
various yahoo groups or the NASGmembers yahoo group to ask a general
question and wait for a response. You want to know who has the 200 XYZ RR
F units that SHS imported – ask the question on the list and request that
the answer come back to your personal address. The NASG directory never
held that kind of information, anyway. Or ask for all followers of ABC RR
contact you. That will at least get you the ones that are interested in
the conversation.
Those that don't have email are still a pretty significant number of the
NASG membership, but everyone gets the "Dispatch". I would bet that one
could ask Jeff Madden (editor) to put in a "public announcement", though
that would take a while to get to everyone, and then you would again have to
wait for a response, BUT it is doable...
Have fun!
Bill Winans
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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
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