Score for technology

Technology can sometimes be frustrating, "even to us guys working in the I.T. world",  but here is a great example of the wonderful things technology can do for us! 

Two things I like about this video

Oh I jumped

Oh I jumped right out there and bought one of these snake probes after seeing this! Oddly enough the first week I had it I used it for three different things, non-model railroad related! LOL!

Modeling related use will start this weekend when I start a series of decoder installs for a friend.

Can't believe you are charging money for this!

Really!

Harold

Just remember we pay contributors and it might help

Seems some think everything associated with us should be free like we're a charity and not a business. Well, MRH and TMTV are basically a break even business, so nobody's getting rich here - and a fair share of what comes in pays contributors - and that includes folks who appear on TMTV. Or maybe you'd rather we not pay modelers for their time trying to be helpful to the rest of us?

Here, we prefer to be helpful rather than accusatory ... and we take the best contributions and pay for them. You should try it sometime. I've seen your modeling and we'd love to see your by line in MRH or on TMTV, Harold ...

Different Strokes

Why so bitter Harold?

I enjoyed part one, because reduced vision is something I am having to learn to cope with, but I need to renew my TMTV membership in order to keep watching.

Being in Canada...sadly even though Canada is where TMTV is produced, I have to pay $1.30CAD for the oil dollars I have to buy in order to subscribe to this great Canadian produced product, lol!  Still, I have no complaints about TMTV or the great country I live in.

Though I do wish winter would get here...

Best regards,

Not bitter!

This should be presented as a public service to all of those with declining eyesight.

Have presented lots of free material on the internet for years. Had some of the articles published in Railroad Model Craftsman, but RMC didn't care if they remained on my website. That is why I liked being published in RMC.

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/

Have slowed down in recent years because of health.

Harold

A public service? And then who pays for the costs of production?

Hi Harold:

While I appreciate the sentiment you express - public service is a noble goal - keep in mind that creating and sharing a story like this costs money. The cameras are expensive. The travel is expensive. The time to shoot and edit is expensive - because this is Barry's job. It's how he puts groceries on the table and a roof over his head. And Barry's ability to do what he does - to tell compelling stories using video - was also expensive: It involved post-secondary education and 30 years of work in the business. Often, there are other professionals involved - people who do voiceover work for a living, or run the second camera for a living, or write scripts for a living.

So, if this is given away for free - as a public service - who pays for all of that? Who pays for Barry's gas, and his stay in a motel? And for the groceries? And for the other professionals he hires?

The answer, of course, is the subscribers: We pay Barry and Joe and the rest of the team a few bucks a month - and they bring us stories that help us better enjoy the hobby, become better modelers, or just entertain us for a while. That's the value proposition.

Let me ask you this, Harold: What did you do for a living? And did you do it for free?

Cheers!

- Trevor

This should be presented as a public service...

A public service would be free eyeglasses for everyone with impaired vision!  Sounds a bit like socialism though...lol!

Well stated Trevor.

Regards,

Seeing to it

I though this was a very good clinic, quite illuminating. Brought to the forefront some things about eye sight and this hobby we love that were priceless. I agree Pat's attitude is inspiring and very positive. Focused "Pun intended" on tools and techniques we all can use. If anything could be added maybe use of the color blue for your cutting mat and under your plate glass to lessen eye strain.  

I am visually impaired too,

I am visually impaired too, not legally blind, but challenged. I have found that my best trick for seeing models in a clear view is to photograph and upload them to facebook. Somehow shame screams out at me and I can move on to fixing my errors.

@Ron..........

........not sure why you put it on Facebook but I agree with a photo. For some reason you don't see a lot of things "live" that show up instantly in a photo!!!  What's up with that??

Peter