cyprianoFor months, Diane Segal has paid for full page ads in Trains and Classic Train. I'd like to know more. 1. Why does she goes to this great expense? 2. Who does the art work? 3. Who writes the poetry that rhymes but does not scan? 4. Why she chooses Kalmbach publications but not others such as Railfan & Railroad?
There's at least one prior thread on Ms. Segal so if you enter her name into the "Search Community" box (to the left of the post) it should pull it up...
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As I recall from the previous thread, no one knows the answers. But I too am curious.
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Paul
I believe Ms. Segal's mother, who has passed on, was a very active member of the C&O Railroad Historical Society (or whatever the'official' name is). The why's and wherefore's of here continuing ads is unknown. I believe the artwork and poetry are Ms. Segals own.
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The folks at the magazines are as perplexed as anyone, as I recall.
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Purely my perception here, but after seeing a year's worth of the ads by Ms. Segal, it seems that it is perhaps just her way of honoring her late mother's memory and fondness for trains. I'm assuming that her mother did the artwork that appears w/ the ads.
The trains seem to be getting more modern too, the first issues had steamers, and recently I recall seeing a modern diesel. Maybe an AC4400CW or and SD40-2?
I don't have any idea either, but I am grateful for the support her ads give to Trains.
carnej1cyprianoFor months, Diane Segal has paid for full page ads in Trains and Classic Train. I'd like to know more. 1. Why does she goes to this great expense? 2. Who does the art work? 3. Who writes the poetry that rhymes but does not scan? 4. Why she chooses Kalmbach publications but not others such as Railfan & Railroad? There's at least one prior thread on Ms. Segal so if you enter her name into the "Search Community" box (to the left of the post) it should pull it up...
I emailed Erik Bergstrom about the search engine. He said it will be awhile before all of the posts are indexed. Right now using the search engine is iffy.
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tree68 The folks at the magazines are as perplexed as anyone, as I recall.
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In these times when advertising is viewed as an unnecessary expense by too many small-minded businesses, Trains is glad to sell her a dozen full-page B&W ads per year.
If Trains were Railroad Magazine, they would have featured Ms. Segal as an "Interesting Railfan" long ago, and all of the mystique would have been gone.
Carl
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I don't understand why this irks so many.
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I don't think it "irks" anyone, if anything many of us are curious as to the story behind Ms. Segal's reasons for doing this. I'll bet it's an interesting story. Meanwhile, enjoy the pictures and the poetry, I think it's a great thing, and a wonderful way to honor one's parent.... If I could afford to do that in my dad's memory, I would.
My wife (when I have showed her the ads) and I have appreciated the ads--both poetry and drawings.
Johnny
I would expect that at least one senior member on Kalmbach's staff would have thought to inquire of Ms. Segal if she had a story she'd like to share. In the absence, now a more than a year into her tributes, I would guess that she declined to reveal the nature of her desire to do this, as well as about the circumstances that led to the drawings and their publication.
I find it touching, if somewhat intriguing. Some of the drawings are very good.
-Crandell
I guarantee least one senior member on Kalmbach's staff has asked Ms. Segal if she had a story she'd like to share. After all, Kalmbach is there to make money and they do so by providing interesting content. If there was a story available, it would have been published long before now.
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The first times that I saw the ad, I was thinking that her mother just died and wanted to thank her for being an artist or some kind of job where she started to draw locomotives or whatever. Today, it is like over a year or two and she still have well spoted full page advertissements selling nothing and no way to contact her. They're unexplained and meaningless ads to most of us, but she must have a reason to do it. Maybe she wants to spend all her mother's estate as requested on her wills or to avoid someone to get that money or she's requesting to do community works by the court. It is and advertissement for sure, because free artwork is not published that way (if published at all). No clue, but...
A quick google search found another thread on Trainorders (http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1567804) where someone found an Supreme Court of Florida judgement, The Florida Bar vs someone called Diane S. Segal from Miami, stating (page 11) that "she also must undergo psychiatric evaluation, the results of which must demonstrate that she is mentally fit to practice law." (http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/83352/op-83352.pdf). That's maybe the reason why that Diane S. Segal could act strangely.The only other thing that I found on that Diane S. Segal from Miami, the only one found on Google, is she's reports herself as self-employed and gave 750$ to the Republican party in 1995.
If someone got more evidences, I am curious to know. To the Kalmbach staff, money has no smell and everything is legal, but it costs nothing to ask her since her move is so unusual.
Let's replay that "Out of limits" tape again!
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