Re: [CBQ] Track bumpers/derails; LaCrosse; paint dating & Webmaster

["Nelson Moyer ku0a@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Ken,

Thanks for the list! Now if someone will fill in any missing information, I'll 
at least know what I'm missing.

Nelson

On Jun 9, 2014, at 5:50 PM, "Kenneth Martin kmartin537@surewest.net [CBQ]" 
<CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Nelson,
> 
> I don't remember seeing you ask but that may just be me, anyway.
> 
> I have attached a list of BRHS Data Sheets that I have and I believe I have 
> them all. 
> 
> Ken Martin
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 9, 2014, at 2:31 PM, 'Nelson Moyer' ku0a@mchsi.com [CBQ] wrote:
> 
>> Gerald,
>> Very few data sheets are still available for sale, and I have those, plus 
>> all the other ones that have been available over the past three years. 
>> Unfortunately, most of the data sheets were out of print before I joined 
>> BRHS and started learning about the Q so I could build a layout based upon 
>> prototype standards. I can’t get a complete list of the data sheets that 
>> were published, though I’ve asked on the list and privately many times. I 
>> have repeatedly offered to scan the data sheets to pdf to post on the BRHS 
>> web page for download or burn them to a CD-ROM disk. Apparently, the board 
>> isn’t interested in making these materials available. Meanwhile, BRHS 
>> membership declines.
>>  
>> I’ve accessed documents on other railroad historical society web sites that 
>> have been very helpful to me while building resin kits of other road’s 
>> rolling stock, and I think it’s a crime to refuse to reissue the CB&Q 
>> freight car data sheets as a modeling aid as well as for historical 
>> interest. If the BRHS has any hope of attracting new members that are also 
>> modelers, the society needs to provide them with some incentive to join. 
>> Refusal to electronically publish out of print documents is self-defeating, 
>> and if the board thinks that prospective Q modelers are going to buy 
>> documents from the archives, they are deluding themselves.
>>  
>> Nelson Moyer
>> 
> 
> 
> <BRHS Data Sheet List.xlsx>
> 
>