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Well. I find it disappointing that some of you dont find the old magazines revelant. I value them for small peek into past way of life in industry and what have you. For example, they showed the Segrams Facility in Maryland some years back. "Here are the tank cars, here is the storage building, here is the elevator and nice landscape." Wonderful model possibility. A bit dry but not a very good look. Previous issues going back 20 years immerse you in the art of distillery work and take you into the industry and when you finish you have lots of ideas for the railroad. I dont know if the today's Patriot Act and time of war or trade secrets kill the freedom in information or not. So what if they refer to materials we dont use much today? Or perhaps not have articles you value. I say that we can scan, upload and host these articles ONLINE as a community effort by Month and year. If MR or Kalmbach feels it's too expensive to scan all MR and related magazines into a internet accessible data base then the Community is going to have to find a server, bandwidth and have people around the world scan the magazines, convert to PDF file and upload them to the server. Then you can toss the paper. One person or company may not be able to do it but surely a large group around the world can. Or I fear that within 5-10 years we will lose the magazines in the trash dump and save for a very few select libraries scattered around the Nation, no one will have access to these articles that are so valueable to our hobby. We would have to re-invent the wheel all over again.
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