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I am surprised that the British guys havent weighed into this argument already, i agree that Marty won the competition because he is a good modeler and because he took a good photograph of his handy work. However the critiscism about bias i believe is correct not so much toward diesel but toward what has become "The Norm". I am not alone in believing that most of you American modellers have lost your way and are slavishly following each other and that just about all your model railways look like clones of each other. Brilliant but similar. This is why i did not enter as i was pretty sure it would be a "hometown" decision and I certainly don't mean anyone would cheat, more just go along with similar to what they had seen in the past. For instance i went to a lot of trouble to take a photograph of an "Orient Express' type passenger train, taken at dusk with all lights bazing, beautifully refelected in water and i didn't submit it because I saw all the examples of what had been submitted in the past and again not only are the railways look like clones of each other but so too do the pictures. Again i reiterate that i don't suggest that anyone would cheat nor do i suggest that there are not some very brilliant layouts are around, but i think the whole situation needs to change and that we all do not slavishly follow each other down a very familiar path because that is what we have always done. Regrds ian
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