TT Scale Article

Any interest in a TT scale article on "Scratchbashing" a Boxcab?

Bernd

TT scratchbashing?

Transition era...

"What we need are more articles about the transition era", said no one ever.

I honestly have been hoping the obsession with the transition era would be fading with the generation that lived through it. Now you tell me its popular with millennials. I'm doomed. 

Randy, modeling the forgotten seventies, the red-headed stepchild of model railroading

Preliminary Idea

Alrighty then, I'll send some preliminary picture samples and some text. in the next few days for your perusal.

Bernd

Modern railroading is slowly growing

Don't be so negative. Modern railroading is growing slowly. But don't look for the transition era to die away, it's just too interesting even for young newcomers who never saw it.

It's like military modeling ... the World War II era is popular because it's interesting, not because you necessarily *saw* the prototypes in action.

Transition

Transition era is the easiest time to get away with running steam (always appealing), passenger trains, and 40-foot cars. I model the '70s, but it's easy to see the attraction of '40s-'50s railroading to modelers.

1970s...Modern??

Interesting Joe that we think of say 1975 as "modern!" That's 40+ years ago! But you are correct. Most modelers consider 1970s as "modern." So very strange.

For my money, the 1970s and up through the mid-'80s is THE most colorful time in railroading from a diesel and freight car perspective. Can't beat it.

If I had to pick the ultimate 10-year block for modeling, it's 1975-1985. Interestingly, the best music ever produced happens to fall in that 10-year span as well.

Mike Confalone

Defining modern

On30 1930's?

Would anyone be interested in On30 scratchbuilding articles? See my post on scratchbuilding rolling stock.

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/26244

So, Joe, I take it . . .

. . . (with tongue firmly in cheek) that your N scale well is bone dry --- since the May issue of MRH featured not just one, but two, N scale articles.

Here, here! Harumph!

I agree with Mike on all counts! 

Randy

Question's ?

In your "Submit an article idea (article query)" form at the "sample photo's" I see that it loads a picture from one's computer disk. Does this picture then get sent along with the form when the "submit article idea" button is clicked? Reason I ask is that the pictures that I send will be cropped since these were not meant be used for the article. New ones, to your picture spec's would be taken.

Also I see that the "Sample writing" section looks for a file to be already written. I'm a bit confused here. I thought I would fill in the line provided with text. Are you looking for something written in plain text, such as Notepad in a file that gets sent along once the "submit article idea" button is clicked?

Bernd

Samples

receipt of article notification

A quick question regarding article submission.  Do you acknowledge receipt of articles when they are uploaded to you?  I realize that you are a small operation so this might not be possible if you have a large volume of material coming in.  The reason I as is that I uploaded an article submission a couple of weeks ago and am wondering if it was actually received.   

Marc Simpson

I think I am alone.

I think I am alone in my choice.

I model rural Ontario in the 1900s in N Scale.

Joe, as an aside, I sent

Joe, as an aside, I sent proposals for a couple of articles. One was ignored. The other was rudely rebuffed. I am a good writer, despite how my forum submissions may appear, so I was shocked to say the least. I bring it up as it may be one reason why you might be having trouble finding writers to submit articles.

When?

Paul:

When did you submit these? I look back through our emails and I can't find anything from you regarding any article ideas.

I do know some of the volunteer help in the early years of MRH could be testy (I have tried to change that), so it certainly could have happened. I also know when people submit ideas through email they get lost. But if you use our submit an article idea form we now have, all submissions get logged into a database so its much easier to find them and see if we have responded.

It's also true that because we're a small outfit with almost totally part-time staff, we struggle to keep up with the volume of email we get. We're trying to do better but things still fall through the cracks occasionally -- if we don't respond just ping us again and ask that we please respond.

So the short answer is try again and see if we do any better now.

Above link...

Joe, the link in your post just above takes you to the "contact us" page and not to your "submit an article" page. 

Randy

Randy: Outdated link, I just fixed it. --Joe

2 N scale articles in the

2 N scale articles in the same issue. I like it. Hope you get more submissions in 1:160 size.

Done deal

Okay Joe, I took up your challenge and I have sent some pictures and a little writeup. Balls in your court now.

John

Joe, the first one was at

Joe, the first one was at least 4 years ago, I don't recall the timing on the last one. I am a little gunshy now, I hope you understand. The response I got kinda shocked me, to be honest. I will try to dig it up, if you wish, but I doubt it survived my wife's annual purging of my email.

paul

If I had to pick the ultimate

Operations articles

As an engineer on Union Pacific railroad, I have a pretty good understanding of prototype operations, we quit carrying waybills in the early 1990's, and all train operations are done by train lists and work orders, and of course main track authority depending on the type needed. Our switching operations are done by switch lists in yards, and work orders on jobs that service industries.  I am not sure if I am a good enough writer to complete an article on operations, but again the knowledge gained from 25 years of working on the 1 to 1 scale railroad maybe should be shared with model railroaders interested in operations. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks, Jim

moe line...go for it!