Re: [CBQ] RE: exisiting BR steam locos & "10 Meets

["Russ Strodtz" <19main@wildblue.net>]

Interesting but a rather different point of view. By the time
I started working in the 60's I already thought passenger was
irrelevant. As time goes by it comes more and more the case.

Russ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert McNay" <CptMatt@ameritech.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 13:19
Subject: RE: [CBQ] RE: exisiting BR steam locos & "10 Meets


I"ve always thought the best way to get younger members is to make a club 
more relevant to them.

I'm probably part of the last generation that sees groups like the BRHS 
relevant because of a direct experience, riding the CB&Q from Chicago to 
Quincy as a kid in the late 1960's. For most people younger than me, its old 
history. And, unless they are into history, it means nothing to them.

So, how to make it relevant to younger people? Get involved in the present 
day. Maybe rail groups should make themselves heard and felt on matters like 
Amtrak's continued existence, and initiatives like Midwest High Speed Rail 
Corridor. If they can get people enthused over these things it would spill 
over into the history part, because there will always be a segment that 
want's see what led to it.

Without making ourselves relevant, we will become just a bunch old folks 
pining over the past.

Rob McNay




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