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Richard,
First of all thank you for positive comments on the last
Bulletin and thank you for your suggestions of the
future.
In regards to your suggestions for multiple subject
Bulletins, we have recently instituted doing this, as evidenced by
having three of the last four Bulletins featuring multiple
topics. My intent as the Editor is to try to present a balance of the two
types of Bulletins. But also, include a variety of smaller
articles (1-6 pages) in each Zephyr, so that every three months, the
membership hopefully has something that interests them. The
schedule for the calendar year is a Zephyr in January and July with a
Bulletin in April and October. The board has discussed how to
handle the longer articles because it involves budgetary concerns as well as
honoring the work of the author. The decision has been to present them in
one issue if possible, not as serials, but there have been exceptions. If
you recall, the SD's were split into three Bulletins, the first
two having been published, with the third on the C&S SD40s and Q
SD45s still in process. The Denver Zephyr Bulletins were large,
but they too were split into Act I, the 1936 DZ and Act II, the
1956 DZ. It is difficult to balance the interests of the authors
and the interest of the members, but I hope that our track record speaks
for itself. Lastly on this topic, the number of articles that are
published, are in direct relation to those that are ready to publish. I
have several who have said they are writing articles over the years, but
they have yet to submit them for publication.
In regards to your suggestion of publishing a running list
of articles in preparation, we have formally done this with the Call Board in
every Zephyr since issue 1-14, and infrequently in prior
issues of the Zephyr, in fact the first issue I did as the
Zephyr Editor, Issue 1-08, had this list of future
articles:
CB&Q/C&S/FW&D
SD7s/SD9s
- Dave Lotz
Quincy,
Illinois
- Jim Miller
Galesburg-Mendota (IL) Way
Freight -
Gerald Hamsmith
Dubuque (IA)/East Dubuque/Galena(IL) Area - Jim
Singer
Burlington Locomotive Coaling
Stations
- Hol Wagner
Troop Kitchen
Cars
- Gene Tacey
Of those, only one has been published - so far.
Since the Bulletin is a more formal publication, I don't want to
include the Call Board there, but I will add a complete list of
articles that I am aware of to the website in the next few
days.
Finally, I hope everyone saw your list of articles that
you would like to see in the future. I can add this list to the website in
addition to the Call Board. Richard, I encourage you, and the rest of the
members, to pick one topic that interests you and start doing the research on
that topic, then prepare it in quasi-article form. If Rupert can do this
from New Zealand, how much easier is it for us who are in the states! You
don't need to be a polished author and present articles that are print-ready,
that's what I get paid to do. If I have text and illustrations, I can put
them together for a polished, publishable article. It takes
volunteers to "man up" and do this. It's not hard, but it is time
consuming, unfortunately time that me as your Editor does not have.
Dave
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