Bill, A founding member of a camera club-humm so you probably remember
wet plates then! <G>
A few months back, I made Facebook contact with a former home town
neighbor who was into 3 rail, both Lionel and European. He was three
years older but related that two of his classmates that had been into
trains too--one AF and one Marx. I never knew that but only because of
a few years difference. If we would have known that, the AF guys would
have equaled the 3 rail guys.
I also have a few "this is S" brochures that I hand out. I used to have
a good bunch of the S scale brochures that the manufacturers
commissioned several years ago. Problem is that several of the key
manufacturers are not around anymore making the folder more of a mill
stone.
Of course, I did have a stake in most of those brochures by default
since my layout and/or studio was the set for the photo work, with the
exception of the narrow gauge portion. I once talked with Roger Carp at
Classic Toy Trains---he mentioned that the layout I used for the SHS
catalog and the hi-rail segment of 'This is S' could be published in his
magazine. I then explained that all the hi-rail work was simply a false
set. While the SHS ads and catalogs was a mixture of both.
I'm in the final editing stages of putting out a small brochure for our
local "all scale" club. It's a moderately sized group (50-70 members)
but lately we've been meeting as often for funerals as regular
meetings. We felt that we needed to recruit some younger blood. I've
also ordered display racks to distribute to the hobby shops, major
layouts and a half dozen local RR museums to gather a few new members.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 9/8/13 8:57 AM, Willam Fraley wrote:
Funny thing happened to me yesterday............
I'm giving the opening night talk to our local camera club, as I'm the
surviving founder, and a camera club member stopped by my home to pick
up my image disc. http://www.hersheycameraclub.org/
While we're down in my "Dungeon" /as Mary calls it/, he witnessed my
trains. So, of course we ran them and I introduced Jim to S scale. He
has some 027 in boxes and now that he is retired from AMTRACK he
decided to have himself a model railroad. Because of limited space he
choose N gauge. N gauge is rapidly gaining popularity in model
railroading and I congratulated him. However the stunner was as he
looked at my layout he said "I never heard of S gauge."
I then informed Jim of our history, growth and popularity.
Jim took home my standard S gauge brochures.(1) Telling him what my
layout represents. (2) a Layout Schematic (3) An old NASG Flyer "This
Is S Gauge."
I would recommended that you with layout's should also have S gauge
brochures to hand out to visitors.
Perhaps Jim will come to my home from time to time and help me with my
layout?
Who knows what may happen.
Cordially,
Bill (Fraley)
PS; I'm running out of my NASG brochures.
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