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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy .... What I do have a problem with is what we CALL this hobby. Model Railroading implies modeling. Are people that do no modeling really model railroaders? It also implies railroads. Are those who don't actually model a real railroad really model railroaders? (how can you model a railroad that doesn't exist?). Allen was a fine artist, craftsman, and modeler. Was he any good at representing anything but fantasyland? Nope. That's the truth, which is impossible to debate. Sorry. And going beyond reasonable debate? Sort of like your name calling? And speaking of names, at least I'm posting mine, "Mike". [/quote] What IS my problem yesterday ? That would be you, and everyone like you. You represent the new brand of elitistism in the hobby, a collection of jackbooted revisionists, categorizing everyone who does not espouse your particular values and beliefs as something less than yourself. True to this genre, and according to your twisted sense of what is right, you infer, as quoted above, that all freelancers are "not really model railroaders". I am just an average, unknown freelancer with some prototypical leanings, much like a huge number of model railroaders.Most of my inspiration over the past 50-odd years came from the truly legendary hobbyists, who were pretty well ALL freelancers, and who made vast contributions in mostly unpaid time and effort, to the hobby, ensuring the growth and development that we currently ALL may enjoy. Their reward for this service, in this and other forums infected by the elitists, is all too frequently to be derided in thought, slandered in speech, and libelled in print.[xx(] If "Steam is the only choice", Mr. Breyer, may yours forever be superheated and applied posterially. Mike Robertson.
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