Re: Model Railroader mag -- observations and quesions

Froggy @ the pond..com wrote:
[...]Model
railroading is a relatively expensive hobby, as hobbies go, 

It's cheaper than golf. Or sailing. :-)

and a great many modelers
are educated professionals- people who have a large enough disposable income to
afford $300 model locomotives. Most are middle-aged, or slightly older. I am
certainly in that group, and I resent being talked-down to.  If one is a
fifteen-year-old newbie, perhaps there is not so much "talking-down", but fifteen
year-old newbies are not the rank and file of this hobby. They are a distinct
minority.


I had quite rant here, but I snipped it, and offer only the final comments:

Model Railroading as a hobby includes an enormous range of interests, skills, and talents as well as wallet sizes. I've observed that those who diss MR tend to be group of people who would like more people to be builders of railroad models. Well, it's your right and privilege to want more people to share your passion. But, please, don't imply that somehow people who don't share it are "catered to" by a "dumbed down" magazine. That air of indignant hauteur ill becomes you.
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