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I Need Help From Anyone With Experience In The Hobby
Our recent reader poll results showed 75% of respondents thought other model railroaders were willing to share ideas. Unfortunately, 23% thought some people in the hobby could be more helpful, or that many resist sharing their ideas and knowledge. So, here is your chance to prove the 23% wrong!
If you have any knowledge of model railroading you can contribute your ideas to this blog and help others in the process. Without help some beginners may simply give up and leave the hobby through sheer frustration.
You will know from previous postings I always encourage people to join their local model railroad club, and this blog is also a way you can interact with the wider model railroading community.
Your Thoughts Matter
The problem is, I don’t have the time to continue running this free service on my own. I need others in the hobby to step up to the mark and start helping with answers to questions etc.
At the moment this blog is available as a free service to everyone, but one option is to make it for private membership only. That way I could generate some revenue to cover some of the costs of my time spent running this service.
However, my preference is to keep it as free access to everyone, but I need others in the hobby to contribute their skills and knowledge to keep it going. Fortunately, we do have some very generous, regular contributers like Tony P, Hank, Herb Snr and others… but, they can’t be expected to do everything.
The first thing you can do is register as a contributer and blog member. That way, I know you are seriously interested in helping others in the hobby and helping me (and others) to keep this blog as free access for everyone.
Then, you can simply add your feedback and comments to various posting and share your thoughts and ideas with others. We need this hobby to grow and prosper. We need to continually attract and encourage new people into model railroading. Without them, the manufacturers, suppliers, retailers etc won’t do as well… and we all know what happens when people don’t make money.
I am sorry for the lecture, but it is best I speak my mind, rather than just make changes without giving everyone the opportunity to participate.
So please, we can all help each other. We are all in this hobby together. Don’t just sit there, register now and help others!
Click on the green Comments and Feedback link below this posting to register as a contributor and blog member.
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I’m just getting started with building my first O Gauge layout (approx. 7′ by 16′ right now). I’d enjoy chatting with others about building, as I have questions of my own, and I have learned but a little and may be of help to others. I’ll stick with this blog, bookmarking it and check it frequently as I can. I’m just a 53 yo college kid right now, but my free time I try to get out there and work on my hobby. Thanks for being here!
Have been in the hobby 5 yrs, I have built a 15 by 30 layout, two level, layout built for operations, car card system, 374 cars can be moved in three steps.Good staging and a fine main yard, interchange run also plus a coal run from mine to power plant that goes on thru the session non stop. I enjoy rebuilding old cars to todays standard. I have a purina plant and collect purina cars, I believe i have them all. I also have a large wonder bread/Hostess cake plant and collect those also…Layout is HO with Digitrax DCC, great system..I enjoy your service, and answer questions when I canI hope this continues and I will do my best to help out.Best of everything. Herb sr