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What do you care. Oh, and by the way even you logging buffs who handlay your track need a healthy model railroad industry. if only to buy your Code 40 rail. Or do you use wooden "spool" track like the line which ran from Boonville to Old Forge eons ago? We shall see how this issue evolves because some manufacturers are already complying with **'s demands and they seem to be selling product. I hope that you are right. because ** really is best served by a healthy model railroad /railfan industry whether you care to admit it or not. However, I see a condescension in your whole tone since you do not see yourself as a mere model railroader because those guys play with trains that for the most part are pruchased by their end user either RTR or requiring only paint and details before being placed on the layout while the REAL artists eschew all of this to concentrate on obscure prototypes In other words you have the same contempt for 98% of the model railroad hobby that you perceive the general public does. OK, then why is it that when an NRHS chapter holds a public event, thousands of people from the non hobby general public attend? Fact is, other than a few self absorbed "foamers", the public DOES have a favorable impression of model railroaders/ railfans Even the powerful gun owner community doesn't have the good public reputation that we have. but they are ORGANIZED. Model railroaders aren't taking on "big brother" (whoever he is) like the NRA does, all we want is a little respect from the industry which PROFITS from our activities even without royalties. Come to the New York State Fair in late August/early September to see what the rail hobbies do for the rail industry as hundreds of thousands of fairgoers view the largest single group of exhitits by a single exhibitor at the whole Fair.
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