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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="MJChittick"] <P>[quote user="eolafan"] <P>Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and mine is KEEP IT PRIMARILY AMERICAN RAILROADING RELATED (say 95% plus).</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>I concur completely. <STRONG><EM>"Trains" </EM></STRONG>should remain primarily focused on latter-day North American railroading.</P> <P>To address one other comment, <STRONG><EM>"Classic Trains"</EM></STRONG> magazine covers the historical aspect of America railroading. I also subscribe to it, and if that is your area of interest, it's a great magazine. </P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P><FONT face=verdana,geneva><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I buy <EM>Classic Trains</EM></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> quite often, but it is intended to cover only a narrow historical window, whereas with <I>Trains</I>, there is no restriction on historical timeframes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For instance <I>Trains</I> ran story about Casey Jones a while back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That story would have been considered off limits for <I>Classic Trains</I> because it was too early.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> A lot of people think <EM>Classic Trains</EM> is for the old railroading and <EM>Trains</EM> is for the new, but that is not accurate. </SPAN>The <EM>Trains</EM> purview is free to run anything on any historical period, but they limit how often according to the limitation of interest suggested by market surveys, which show hardly any interest in earlier railroading.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But interest comes from exposure, so without exposure, interest will not develop.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the older the subject matter is, the harder it is to expose to people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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