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Model Railroader Online Poll: MR Express

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Model Railroader Online Poll: MR Express
Posted by Bergie on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:36 AM
How often do you read our weekly online column MR Express? Please vote and share your comments below.

If you're not familiar with MR Express, it can be found every week within our Product & hobby news section of our Web site.


Polls on Trains.com are not scientific and reflect only the opinions of the users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, the readers of our magazines, nor the public as a whole. Bottom line, our polls are meant for fun and to stimulate conversation amongst our forum users.
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Posted by jjbmish on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:54 AM
I read it every week, I enjoy the comments and insight offered by the guys from Model Railroader.

John
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:10 AM
I find it to be very interesting reading, so keep it coming!
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Posted by michaelstevens on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:24 AM
Thanks for the tip Bergie -- I had never heard of it.
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:25 PM
I read it every week. I consider it a bonus to reading the magazine and I love reading and learning as much on the hobby as I can. I don't always agree with everything I read, and sometimes have even contacted the author telling them so and more importantly why, but I read and consider all opinions and facets of our hobby.

Thanks for offering this feature and making yourselves available (targets? <g>) to us online.

Happy Holidays!
"Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~
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Posted by conford on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:56 PM
Thanks for posting your thoughts in this column. I read it every week.

Peter
Modeling Grand Rapids Michigan, C&O, PRR and NYC operations circa 1958.
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Posted by JoeUmp on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:32 PM
It would be interesting if this column could be included in the magazine.

Joe
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:29 AM
I always find this feature interesting. The subjects are constantly changing. I usually learn something new. If this feature was dropped I would miss it as I would the whole online page. I look forward to it's arrival and read whats interesting [usually the whole thing]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:26 AM

I tend to be more interested in the 'how to' aspect of the hobby.

Randy
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:22 AM
I really like it and look forward to it each week. Especially others views on the topics.
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Posted by rails99 on Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:54 PM
I enjoy the weekly ideas and print them out for future reference. I check it weekly and learn something each week.
Thanks and please keeep it up!
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Posted by electromotive on Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:37 PM
Real good! Keep it coming. Lots of interesting items to read about....
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Posted by ausietex on Friday, December 19, 2003 4:01 AM
When I voted 2 or 3 times a month, I meant each MR Express as I print each weekly issue so that I can read them offline and refer back to them. The articles are very informative. Keep up the good work.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 3:40 PM
Didn't know about it. Will start reading it now.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 20, 2003 8:59 AM
I read it each issue and print it out for future reading|
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Posted by cacole on Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:40 AM
I read it every week to keep abreast of what's going on in the modeling arena, especially new product announcements or reviews. Sometimes it's nice to hear the negatives about a product before I make the mistake of purchasing it and discovering them myself.

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Posted by dixieswitcher on Monday, December 29, 2003 9:32 PM
I enjoy reading comments from the staff. They're real people just like the rest of us!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 2, 2004 4:38 PM
I enjoy MR each month and have been reading and making copies of MR Express each month to put in my file for future referance In my 3' X 8' yard I just added the CABOSE t
track as stated in the past MR EXPRESS.
KEEP UP THEGREAT WORK AND THE MR EXPRESS!
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Sunday, January 4, 2004 7:25 PM
I read it weekly and have even responded to the authors at times. I appreciate them making themselves available via email and not hiding up in the ivory tower somewhere in Kalmbachland dictate what the rest of us MUST do to be REAL model railroaders. And they answered me the same day! I respect that even though we don't always agree, nor should we.
"Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 8, 2004 9:41 PM
We really missed you over the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

I look for it each Thursday night and find it entertaining and enlightening.
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Posted by JDCoop on Thursday, January 8, 2004 11:19 PM
I read it every week. It kind of reminds me of the old "Bull Session" column that used to appear in Model Railroader. If you guys keep writin' it, I'll keep readin' it!
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Posted by PennsyNut on Friday, January 9, 2004 1:39 PM
Why don't you send an eMail message to us to remind us to read this? Or - send it via eMail?
A SPF,Nuts about Pennsy,what else is there?
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Posted by jdekker on Friday, January 9, 2004 1:58 PM
A great source of up-to-date information. I like the personal stories about trips, projects, or news that you share.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 9, 2004 2:30 PM
I usually Glance at it at least once a week or more, depending on if a topic pops up there that looks interesting I may visit it more often.
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Posted by tomwatkins on Friday, January 9, 2004 6:23 PM
I read it every week. I enjoy it and usually learn something useful from it.
Thanks,
Tom Watkins
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:12 PM
I enjoy reading the MR Express every week, It seams that I can always learn something new every week that I can use in building my layout. I also print alot of the articales to look at for future reference. I have been interested in model railroading for many years , but have only been working at it for the last 5 or 6 years. Keep up the interesting articales, you do a fantistic job. Thank You!!! Ron Peterson from Iowa.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:18 PM
what the[censored]is it
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Posted by dphusman on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:33 AM
I enjoy it. Keep up the good work!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 7:10 AM
I read it every week. Good consistent content! Keep it up!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 23, 2004 1:54 PM
I look for it every week, miss it when it's not updated. Great feature for the electronic Model Railroder site. BTW, I also check the forumsdaily when in town.

Good work, and keep it up.

cheers chris

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