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Here are my gripes with Model Railroader. 1. Ever since the World's Greatest Hobby campaign started, they seem to be focusing an awful lot more on the beginners segment of the hobby. Granted Attention needs to be spent here. But since when did dedicating the Dec and Jan issiues to it, and then half of the Feb-July Issies to it become neccissary? 2. All the features I liked are now gone. Gone is the "Paint Shop" My favorite Column. The "Studen't fare" which was a dedicated teens section. There was the One Reader's Opinion that I really liked. And the Prototype Information has basicly become a Q&A session. 3. There just aren't that many How To articles any more. Yes they still run them. But Its been a while since there have been any of Substance. I have to read RMC (I subscribe to that to, and have to vouch that Quality and Content are much better than stated on this forum) to get my fill of those. (Mike Rose, You are my Hero) 4. Up until Mr. Sperandeo left to run the WGH campaign there used to be a monthly set of plans. Not so any more. Now I See one about once every three issiues. If its a case of running out of plans, publish some old ones from old issiues before. It has been done in the past. (I remember when a guy was building a Climax and they republished Cimax plans from 1972) I am sure a modern audiance would be receptive to them. Also the F-7 Hudson Plans for the Hiawatha were repuplished in the Jan 1996 issiue. So the precedent has been set. 5. While DCC seems the way of the future. Clearly the people writing the articles seem to have imperfect knowledge on the Topic. This is another area where RMC beats model railroader again in the quality of information published. Railroad Model Craftsman In 2001-2003 Published a 24 part series on the ins and out of Digital Command Control by Don Fiegnman. Mr. Fiegnman also regulary puplishes new features about DCC in RMC. Most recent one I have read was a computerised Decoder programmer that is easy to use and free of charge. 6. Finally there is a certain Nickle Plate Road modeler who shall remain nameless, who's writing to me seems to be quite arrogent in his old age. While looking back at some of this gentlmen's earlier work in MR, he was almost a comedic figure. What happened? My advise to him is mellow out dude. Live a little. Model Railroading is Fun after all. Finally, even though I do have these gripes with the magazine and have contemplated not renewing many times, there is valuble market information in there for my business that I have come to rely on, and the fact is their product reviews are the most throurough in technicle evaluation that I have seen. But $40.00 for these neccissary features is becoming a bit pricey, I think. While I find this highly unlikely, i would hope that the MR Staff is watching this column, and that one of the staff, (Maybe Andy Himself?) will read this and resond to us. James.
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