Train Master TV

Good luck, but remember, "always free". As long as you tube continues at its current rate of growth i do not know why people would pay for something they can get for free.  If you search you tube there are tons of video on almost everything you want to do or know about.

Its is available every were, on tablet and phone.  Now playlist by many in hobby are making it easier to find topics. 

Joe, know like all of us, it's nice to make a buck, but you and others like you have created a new direction, now you have to figure a way to get reward form that direction. 

Train Master TV

No annoying ads in fee-based content

MRH is ad-funded and free to readers so you will be getting lots of ads that way - it's the price of free.

TrainMasters is fee-based content so will have no ads. Also, our eBooks are fee-based content, and you can look at our first eBook to see it has no ads - just a small placement in the back for Railroad Explorer and MRH, the two publishers who collaborated on the eBook.

In TrainMasters we might mention products but it will be the personal experience of the person we're interviewing - or we may ask a vendor to demo the use of their product in a segment, but we don't want infomercials, we want meaty educational how-to content showing the proper use of a product in the context of solving a model railroading problem. Hard-sell or interrupt-based ads are cheesy and annoying and will never be a part of our fee-based content.

No ads that sneak up on you, either. We will keep any product conversation low-key and always in the context of the topic. Just informative, entertaining content by passionate modelers to help you do the hobby better.

Not sure how I could make it any clearer than that. 

Time is Money ...

@ Art -- yes, people can search You-Tube and find useful videos for most any subject ... but your search will also likely turn up lots and lots of stuff that is not worth the time you spent loading it.  People who have less time than money will pony up the subscription price to get a known quality product from a vendor that they trust.  Lots of folks here will subscribe for the simple reason that Joe Fugate (and MRH) is behind it ... and that is a pretty good reason if you are interested in that sort of thing.

1st Amendment is Great

We have choices to make and as long as we do not lose these rights we will all get to chose what path we take. To pay or not to pay. We all do pay in the end through our purchases. 

Good Luck Joe

YouTube vs TrainMasters

I agree there's some great stuff on YouTube - but there's also good amount of chaff. Content quality and value is all over the map.

If time is valuable, one question is how much "free" time do you need to waste on YouTube trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff - versus paying for a video channel where everything must meet production standards to be allowed to run?

And it's also worth noting, having content go through a formal editing process with seasoned modelers also means the content gets vetted - is it even a good idea, is it safe, and so on? That's part of making the most of your time as well.

There's also the fact that as a paid channel, we will be investing in special projects and field trips for the subscribers that may never end up on YouTube, ever. If you know MRH, you know we're *very open* to recommendations from our audience as to what you want to see.

In a way it's like becoming part of a club where you get to help define what you think *should* be put to video for the betterment of the hobby.