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Replies like the one stokerk submitted are just the childish sort that keep people from the hobby. I have received a tremendous amount of help FROM THIS SITE and you fellow modelers. I don't sit here and complain that most model the easy era (transition) where you are catered to by every manufacturer and the magazine as well. Plenty of articles covering passenger service an huge layouts as well. I can learn something from many articles of varying subjects. I do not expect every isue to cater to me, but just like the various hot rod magazines of the past, they all catered to Chevy. After a while, you get tired of the same old thing. Now, this issue? 31 of the first 43 pages are all ads. Backdrops? Don't use them. Never will. Body mounting couplers on Marklin and Trix? Don't use them. Never will. Workin on the RR-scratching cars? More info on that than the sanding towers. Rock casting? Well, usable, but a simple enough subject that I don't think needed to be brought up. My opinion, though, OK!! Modeling N&W passenger trains of the '50s and '60s? Again, catering to a narrow audience, with 6 PAGES. 3 RR's, one layout. Now, here is soething I thought I would enjoy. Nope, sorry, no pics of the layout itself. Instead, it's a fact finding article about the prototype. Shouldn't this one be in Trains Mag? Detailing a plastic steam loco? Decent article, but again, nothing I will ever use. Don't do steam. Preserving PA RR? Again, something I thought I would get some use out of, even though it is again catering to the geographic godsend of Railroading. Nope, too short. Photo-etched brass buildings? Yeah, right. Great info for the particular subject, but maybe I am too new. Do you guys do this? Decoders for Athearns. Now, this I will use. Followed by 29 of the last 35 pages for more ads. The same ads form last issue, next issue. All exactly the same. Now, please feel free to bash me for expressing my opinion in ANY childish manor you prefer, stokerk. Maybe they are just running out of material. Maybe they have shown so many East Coast and New England layouts that there aren't any left. After all, how many different Pennsylvania Steam Era Coal based layouts are there? Maybe we have been educated SO much that they feel we don't need to learn anything else. I don't know, but I subscribed to learn, and it isn't happening. My original subscription (I think I got it for about $19) was worth the money, but at $40, they an keep it. I will review each issue as they come out at the store, and buy the 1 or 2 each year that entertain and educate ME. Oh, and deschane, yes, it is the American RIGHT to complain about things we don't like. Just think, if noone complained, you would be British right now. Besides, it is constructive criticism. Too few do nothing. By expressing our opinions, pro or con, maybe something will change for the better. I am sure you would stop buying mags if they never gave you info for your use. Sorry to all of you for my rantings, but there is no call for treating anyone inferior because you don't like what they have to say. Personally, I think Steam and anything East of the Mississippi has been done to death, and people pick it because it is the absolute easiest to model, but you all model what you like, and so will I. I don't think anything less of anyone for their choices.
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