Ed,
Trainfest is the largest train show north of Chicago and is held the
week after S Fest at the Wisconsin State Fair Grounds every year on the
second weekend in November. It is geared toward all scales and modeling
abilities. Last year, S Scale Workshop was there and so were the
Badgerland S Gaugers, as well as Scenery Unlimited. It draws over
20,000 probably closer to 35 or 40,000 every year. S Fest is the
weekend prior to Trainfest. http://www.trainfest.com/
I hope that the S-Sig can get the word out about S scale to the
manufacturers. I already see that Lionel is turning a blind eye on
scale and continuing to produce things that are geared toward the
American Flyer and toy market. I have strong beliefs about the future
of S Scale. I know that scale is the future of S and not AF. Until
there are more things manufactured to draw future modelers to the scale,
S will not grow out of it's current state. Future modelers are going to
model what they grew up with, and therefore more modern equipment needs
to be produced to draw modelers to this great scale. Steam is fine, but
it's generation is departing us, unfortunatly, at a very rapid pace.
Steam era still needs modelers, but as time goes on, fewer and fewer
will be out there, so the product lines need to turn towards things from
the 60's to today. That doesn't mean we need 2 different SD70ACE's on
the market either. Alco's, GE's and 70's era EMD's (SD40-2's and
GP40-2, and SW1500's etc.). And not limited run items either. Making
only 200 of something isn't going to bring anyone to the scale. Oh and
detail parts, like a Cannon and Company line of parts.
Thanks
Michael Ostertag
On 10/25/2012 12:50 PM, Edward Loizeaux wrote:
Hello Michael….
The S Sig is gearing up to present S scale to the outside world of
model railroaders. We have some work to do still before going public
big time. Our emphasis is on explaining and educating the masses
about S scale. To that extent, we are not particularly focused on
speaking to the choir – namely existing S gauge/scale guys.
With the help of Brooks Stover, Tom Hawley and Gaylord Gill, the S Sig
provided handout materials to the NMRA convention in Michigan this
past summer. We also arranged for handout materials to be included in
the registration packages of every single attendee to the convention.
And…..our web site upticked in hits as a result.
Your email asks about Trainfest. I assume you are speaking of the
Fall S Fest. Is this correct? I do not know anything about an event
named Trainfest.
Since speaking to the choir of existing S folks is not our primary
focus, we do not plan to have tables or speakers at this event. When
providing S scale handout materials, we do ask the local groups to
insure these materials are handed out only to serious potential
convertees and not to give them to young children, teenage girls and
not to merely place them on a table for anyone to pick up. This
stuff costs money and we want to make sure it is used wisely with
focus. Get my drift?
I should add that the Michigan club did a great job in this respect
and even gave some materials to known S folks from other parts of the
country to be taken back home and used for other local events of
various kinds in several other locales. This kind of free
distribution is very helpful since it saves on postage costs. At 43
cents for one stamp, nothing is cheap any more.
And, one final thought, most all of our materials are designed to
steer the reader toward our web site. Thus, they do not contain page
after page of text and/or photos. They do however have a professional
appearance and exhort folks to go look at the web site. We decided
that spending money to duplicate what is already on the web site did
not make a lot of sense.
To visit the web site, go to: www.Sscale.org <http://www.Sscale.org>
Thanks for the inquiry.
Ed Loizeaux
*From:*Michael Ostertag [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:03 AM
*To:* [email protected]; Ed
*Subject:* Re: {S-Scale List} Promotional Materials (FREE!)
Ed is the s-sig going to have a presence in Milwaukee 1n a couple of
weeks at trainfest?
Michael Ostertag
Ed <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> We plan to pass out literature if we can obtain a source for same.
>> Bob McCarthy
>
>Bob....
>
>The S Sig has free handout materials available just for the asking.
>This service has been announced several times in the past. Just
>contact the S Sig and make a request.
>
>Cheers....Ed Loizeaux
>www.Sscale.org <http://www.Sscale.org>
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