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

["archie hayden klinerarch@charter.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Group,  Is anyone else experiencing multiple posts from Nelson Moyer  
and Ken Martin?  I kkep getting the same posts about every two hours.   
Is yahoo screwed up or is it my server or what?  Thanks, Archie
On Jun 9, 2014, at 4:31 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