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Post by thebessemerkid on Jul 18, 2020 1:59:00 GMT -8
Ruth Buzzi was the park bench partner to Arte Johnson
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Post by valenciajim on Jul 18, 2020 16:38:18 GMT -8
Ruth Buzzi was the park bench partner to Arte Johnson You're right. Thanks for correcting my faulty memory. |
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Post by bnsf971 on Jul 18, 2020 18:48:21 GMT -8
Ruth Buzzi was the park bench partner to Arte Johnson You're right. Thanks for correcting my faulty memory. There's two ways to tell you're getting old. The first one is, the memory goes. The second one is-- I forgot... |
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Post by santafe49 on Jul 22, 2020 17:01:26 GMT -8
And Goldie Hawn was the "Ditzi Blonde" who didn't get anything.
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Post by loco8107 on Aug 16, 2020 19:45:08 GMT -8
I haven't read MR since May of 2019 and that's sad because at one time I eagerly awaited each new issue. I still read Trains magazine. I know I am a little late to this party but remember looking forward to each issue years ago until the RTR became the norm and less and less modeling articles caused the interest to dwindle. The reviews became less constructive also. With the advent of Facebook, which does have some nice modeling work done, it makes it more convenient despite the fact that most posts are too much about locos and not the whole layout or layout plans like MR always had. Without getting too far off topic, it seems it’s a let’s see how many locos we have world. I still miss reading a good magazine tho. And I agree private messages/comments should be just that..... |
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Aug 16, 2020 20:13:52 GMT -8
loco8107,
What MR does best is in its presentation. It's always been the best looking model railroad magazine with very few typos, good modern graphics (w/ great layout maps), and high quality photos. By comparison, RMC recently had an article about a huge layout in a hobby shop that had the title photo at very low resolution (maybe 50dpi?). That's a huge mistake they should have caught before publication. Heck, the computers will pick that up automatically, so there's no excuse, IMHO.
MR also has pretty good writers & editors. Every article is something I can read through even if I don't have any interest in the subject. I cannot not say the same about NG&SLG, or old RMC, MM, MRing, etc. Modern RMC, OTOH, is much better when it comes to the text and I've come to enjoy reading it.
But I have to laugh at MR reviews. They've always been less constructive. Go back and read old reviews of Tyco and Bachmann models in the 1970's...talk about soft soap.
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Post by riogrande on Aug 17, 2020 3:59:51 GMT -8
MR has always had a very good presentation but since White River took over RMC is a much better magazine. Sounds like they had a QAQC foible with that low res photo. Weird.
Another example of the "Amazing Model Railroader forums" content is a topic called "Who Likes Tyco Freight Cars". Amazingly, there is a lot of Tyco fans there. Maybe nostalgia for the old cheapo toy trains runs a lot deeper than I would have imagined but I've never really found much to like about Tyco. But different strokes.
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Aug 17, 2020 4:17:58 GMT -8
I know of several people in that age group for whom this hobby is nothing more than a nostalgic trip back to their childhood. Now they can afford everything they wanted then, but they have no aspirations to take it anything beyond that level.
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Post by riogrande on Aug 17, 2020 4:26:24 GMT -8
I expect the nostalgia thing has a lot to do with the boom in O-27 trains over the past 25 years or so. I suppose Tyco and much Lionel are in a similar category, toy-like trains, vs. the higher fidelity scale models of the past 30-40 years. I enjoyed my Lionel trains as a kid, but as I got older, I found I prefered model trains that looked more like real trains.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Aug 17, 2020 6:20:46 GMT -8
Re: MR product reviews in the olden days. Someone asked A. C. Kalmbach why they never found anything wrong with a product they reviewed. He responded that they only reviewed wonderful products, and that was the consequent outcome.
Also back in the olden days: MR was the class act. They had a two-page spread in each issue that was usually very inspiring. One was an aerial view of a passenger station that I swore was real. Another was a long shot of part of Paul Larson's layout. And the staff photographer (Art Schmidt?) used a view camera with tilt, so that such things as products were completely in focus. He's the guy, ultimately, who inspired me to get my own view camera.
RMC, on the other hand, was pretty down-home. Paper quality was terrible. E. L. Moore articles ran regularly, and he specialized in, yes, down home. I DID build a little log spring-house from one of them, and I liked it. And the first and second scratchbuild I did was from plans in RMC: a pile driver. First one was in O, second one in HO. In a fit of anti-nostalgia, I trashed all this stuff. It really wasn't THAT good.
Weirdest "model railroader" I've run into: a Lionel collector. He would go to shows and flea markets. One time he showed me his new pile of orange boxes. He told me how great a deal he got on them. I asked what he'd gotten. He didn't know. Or care, apparently. All I ever saw were boxes. No "stuff". I should have suggest he just collect boxes, but I understand those are pretty rare for Lionel.
Ed
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Aug 17, 2020 7:39:01 GMT -8
Jim,
The weird part about that low-res RMC photo is that you know it had to have been taken with a decent camera. Either the photographer had his camera set on low-res (and why would anyone do that?), or whoever did the photo editing changed it to low-res (which is also unthinkable). Just weird.
Yeah, the Tyco thing... Ugh. There are some really cheap people on the MR Forum who would rather take the enjoyment of getting a "deal" than the enjoyment of any kind of quality. To be fair, some have the nostalgia for Tyco, and that's fine, but I only have bad memories of Tyco, fiber ties, brass rail, X2F couplers, grass mats, Plasticville, Atlas snap switches, foam tunnels, etc. Some of the guys on the MR Forum embrace these things while I just want to forget.
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Post by riogrande on Aug 17, 2020 7:50:29 GMT -8
Yes, very true. Perseonally I can't relate to half the people on MR forums - there are some strange birds there.
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Post by brammy on Aug 17, 2020 9:30:55 GMT -8
I read both MRC and MR each month. MR is about my speed for projects. I can read and article and go, "yep I can do that." MRC projects are way outside my skillset, but I enjoy reading them,
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Post by cf7 on Aug 18, 2020 9:18:06 GMT -8
Yes, very true. Perseonally I can't relate to half the people on MR forums - there are some strange birds there. No truer words have been spoken... |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 18, 2020 9:27:52 GMT -8
I tend to bring popcorn when I quicly peruse the list of posts. Just a small bag as there isn't much of interest.
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Post by gevohogger on Aug 18, 2020 10:27:56 GMT -8
Weirdest "model railroader" ... It is mind-boggling how that could be narrowed down to just one individual. |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Aug 18, 2020 10:31:19 GMT -8
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Post by riogrande on Aug 18, 2020 11:35:34 GMT -8
True.
The Burlington RR he painted his walls a dark maroon red. Eh? It looks Awful. I (hopefully tactfully) suggested a sky blue would be a lot better for back ground for a RR, and brighten up the room too. Dark maroon tho, really?
Some of the layout builds have been interesting. Onewolf used to pust his UP mush room layout in a dedicated train room in his large garage building. That is some layout and will be nice to see when it gets scenery in.
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Post by brakie on Aug 19, 2020 3:31:10 GMT -8
True. The Burlington RR he painted his walls a dark maroon red. Eh? It looks Awful. I (hopefully tactfully) suggested a sky blue would be a lot better for back ground for a RR, and brighten up the room too. Dark maroon tho, really? Some of the layout builds have been interesting. Onewolf used to pust his UP mush room layout in a dedicated train room in his large garage building. That is some layout and will be nice to see when it gets scenery in. Jim, Several years back I was on a layout visit with a local club and the guy was a big NYC fan.. How big? The wall behind the layout was painted Jade Green with a prototype NYC cigar band herald. According to his story the herald was for a EMD or Alco end cab switcher. I suppose it takes all types. My all time favorite MR layout build was the Kinnickinnic Railway & Dock switching layout way back in '72. |
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Post by tillamook on Aug 19, 2020 3:31:42 GMT -8
From my publishing experience the most usual case is that the photo was sent via mail, the mail program scaled it down and the editors did not manage to get the full res picture before the printing deadline. But even then there are ways to pimp the image quality. The weird part about that low-res RMC photo is that you know it had to have been taken with a decent camera. Either the photographer had his camera set on low-res (and why would anyone do that?), or whoever did the photo editing changed it to low-res (which is also unthinkable). Just weird. |
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