A Burlington magazine with a variety of article in each issue available in
the hobby shops and swap meets like the Milwaukee, CNW, Soo Line, the Rock
has two mags, the IC and others would do wonders for increasing awareness
of the Burlington.
Roger Kujawa
Morton, IL.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 1a. Re: BRHS vitality
> Posted by: "Jan Kohl" j.kohl@wildblue.net jwestkohl
> Date: Wed Sep 8, 2010 6:14 pm ((PDT))
>
> This is kinda digging up an old thread, but I wanted to think about it
> since I
> didn't have a good answer right away, and even now, not sure that I do.
>
> I can say with absolute certainty that the BRHS will change. Just to be
> blunt,
> I'm probably one of the younger interested parties, and I'm a "2nd gen"
> fan...the CB&Q went away when I was 6 years old. I like it now because of
> its
> original ownership and history of the line that I used to live next
> to...but I'm
> not an expert nor do I have any personal experience with the Q. I
> actually
> model the BN on my home layout.
>
> You don't see an Hannibal & St. Joseph group. It's demise was so long ago
> that
> it's interest stems from those who want to know a history of a particular
> region, or a predecessor to a later railroad. You could start a H&StJ
> group,
> but you'd have only a few members, and probably never get much
> participation...certainly not enough to warrant an annual meet, much less
> 2 of them.
>
> How do you persuade a younger member to join? Typically, they have to
> have a
> "hook"...family member who was part of the railroad, dad who is interested
> in
> modeling the railroad, something of that nature. Those kinds of "hooks"
> get
> farther apart the more time passes since a railroad packed it in.
>
> I thought about the comment from someone that you'd never see a "merger"
> between
> the NP, GN & CB&Q groups. However, *I* have no animosity towards those
> groups,
> and I'd say with certainty that if it came down to combining groups to
> keep them
> alive, I'd do it. I see no need to rehash some 50 year old arguments.
>
> 10 more years, and what will the Q look like? I don't know. We've got a
> large,
> fairly active population right now, which means that a lot of people are
> forgetting that things always change and are happy to make hay while the
> sun is
> shining. I think that if we want to keep the Q as an "active" group, we
> do need
> to keep in mind that not everyone who may want to join this group may be
> like
> "us". You have to have a good product if you want others to "buy" it. If
> you
> don't really care, sometime down the road you won't have a product to
> "sell"...
>
> What's the answer? I still don't know. But I think an active membership
> that
> is interested in "hooking" new members is a great place to start.
>
> Just a few thoughts...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jan
>
>
>
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