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Mr. MR Editor, I appreciate your response to this question which I raised concerning the Information Station. I wanted to point out that I agree with your position based on the premise that people may be a bit too far from a hobby shop, and also with my fast DSL I can move up to a gig without too much trouble. Based on my personal experiences with a few hobby shops who are graciously able to share thier collections of MR in-store to those customers who enter the store may be able to use it as a sort of a "library" with the understanding that they may not take the magazine out of the store. I would imagine that collections of MR or related train issues are very hard to locate and perhaps hoped that MR would be able to establish a sort of a "Archive" site on the internet where registered users may visit to search for and read an article (On John Allen's First Railroad for example) that may have been published for profit decades ago but many of the younger people now in the hobby may have not been born when it was written. Perhaps the law regarding "Personal use" of MR might be a bit obselete. I would like to propose a question to MR as to the possibility of allowing your (MR) company to place such materials online for the use of hobbists who may otherwise not be able to live near a hobby shop and it's "almost complete" MR collection. I may find a way to perhaps suggest to MR to consider a "CD" that compiles the data that you set forward on the Information Station to be made availiable to Hobby Shops so we might be able to buy a copy several times a year. I must stop writing because I use too many words. It is my intent to try and see if there is a way that MR would be willing to allow registered users of the forums to revisit articles that may be otherwise lost to time. Or collected in very few locations that is kind of "kept private" by the collector. Lee
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