--- In [email protected], Alan Lambert <alanlambert64@...> wrote:
> It means that some of the big whigs in our scale need to come on >down to
> Texas and Help me and my other club do some promoting. We >need one more S
> club to set up at our local Fort Worth ,and Dallas >train shows.
Local shows are fun but they are small fry compared to the power of the
internet and national magazines. In the old days Varney popularized their
product with John Allen produced ads. Today's John Allen is guys like Lance
Mindheim, Bernie Kempinski,and Mark Dance. MTH or Lionel need to hire someone
like them to build a top quality S layout and get it all over the model
railroading press. The layout doesn't even need to be large, there are
rail/marine facilities in New york and elsewhere that could be modeled exact
scale in S scale and still fit into a single car garage.Ads in MRR and RMC,
online on MRRhobbyist , Youtube, etc. Create some buzz, show the greater hobby
that S can be at the forefront of things and not just gathering dust in the old
flyer closet. Des Plaines is making modern boxcars that are as good as
anything ever mass produced in any scale but who ever hears about them? I'd
been modeling for many years and never gave S a thought till SHS came out with
their great PS2 hoppers and I saw Bob's photos in a magazine then went to the
local train shop and checked them out in person.Shorty after Roger Nulton's
Monon layout was featured in GMRR annual and I was hooked.....Dave Branum
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