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Speaking as someone who writes for publication on a regular basis (but not about trains or model trains) I can tell you -- sometimes you are absolutely stumped for something to say. I thought the bullet proof box for styrene strips looked and sounded like something written by a guy who has a deadline and has perhaps run out of ideas. On the other hand the column on bracket supports for benchwork was well done and very practical -- especially note how very thorough and precise Strang is, very much a measure twice cut once kind of thing. <br />As to Koester's column, again sometimes you can sense a guy at a loss about what to say this month. Sometimes reading his stuff is a little like talking to a fundamentalist -- they know they should make "liberal" noises like how religion is a personal choice but they can't help feeling that there is only one right way and they have found it. I do remember one of his columns where he said he could not understand why someone would tear down a finished layout just because they enjoy building layouts -- when he suddenly did the same thing he did NOT apologize publicly to the guy he had belittled a few years earlier. Still and all there is usually something thought provoking in the column and I never fail to read it. Wonder what the next editor will bring to the table of MR ....
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