Hello all,

Been lurking from the beginnings:). When posting I am asked about a 'post catagory'... this is at the nature of my question. I realize that the majority of the Hobby (and by that I always mean the people in it:) don't consider sound, and of those who do, it is promarily on board.

But sound can enhance. It should, as a more serious scale modeling medium, at the least be a part of the discussion, but where does it fit in:)? There is some acceptance for sound in locos- roling stock, but thats not exactly 'layout' sound. 

I see ExactRail is going to produce the Trinity 64' reefer in both N and HO scales.  That's good news.   Also, it is going to be manufactured in the US, also very good news.  The bad news is that they are again taking reservations (read pre-orders) but this time, if you can believe it, with no planned delivery date.  I don't know how they expect people to go for that.  They should be asking for expressions of interest and then, when/if they get the numbers that want, ask for pre-orders.  At $22.00 per car and being sight unseen at this point, I think I'll

Hi,

I would like to find a free or cheap image cataloging program that allows keyword searching and is very portable. Some minimal image resizing, rotation, and export functionality would be nice but not required.