Era

Tue Jul 23 18:56:29 EDT 2024

Stephen,
You have been in this game a long time, and if I'm not mistaken, were/are a
dealer.  I/we would love to sell to the universe, but I don't know how to
go about advertising to those who might be interested without spending
tons of money.
Any insight/help would be appreciated,
Jim Cochran

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 6:17 PM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
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> If you selling only to the society members your data would hold true. If
> you selling to the mass market, 70’s is where it’s at nationally. I am just
> going by what a national mag poled.
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> Stephen Rineair
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> Stephen,
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> Nor discounting your information on modelers in general, Rick Musser's
> poll from last year as well as my personal feedback this year, indicates
> that N&WHS modelers still mostly favor transition era and some even
> earlier.  Not to say that this will not be changing over the coming years,
> but for now, the sweet spot for our group seems to be late steam/early
> diesel.
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> I would be very happy to hear more feedback on this as we only ever get
> responses from a very small percentage of the membership, so LET YOUR VOICE
> BE HEARD!
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> Jim Cochran
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> If the society is going to sell a model that will get the most sales, then
> they should look to the Model Railroader survey recently taken that most
> modeling is in the 70’s era. The transition era is not longer the most
> modeled era. I myself have dumped the steam era as there is very little
> plastic steam available and expensive worn out brass models and replacement
> parts are non existant. I now model late 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. There is so
> much-much more offered/available. I would NOT buy any boxcars, but would
> buy multible hoppers if they fit my era. If the modeling committee wants to
> do a project then correct the lettering diagham on the BLI H2a hoppers
> which I am told is incorrect.
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> Just my 2 cents.
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> There may be more models out there than we realize for that time frame.
> Just recently I saw advertisements for N&W/NS G72 pipe gondolas from Bridge
> Line Design, N&W G-12 and CS-4 gondolas from Plate C Model Prototypes, and
> N&W F20 flat cars with and without Mack cabs as a load from Scale 3d
> Productions. While not N&W there'a also a new model for the Southern radio
> control cars from that timeframe.
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> I suspect as times goes on the 60s, 70s, and 80s will be a popular time to
> model. Personally I shoot for the 40s and 50s but also like stuff from the
> late 90s.
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> I don't know who called Ed a show off.  But (don't panic guys; I'm still
> doing Virginian in 1956)he has supported what I and some others have been
> saying; for the Society to stay afloat and even get larger, and to keep up
> with our mission, we need to do more for the modelers doing N&W post 1964
> and NS.  Love A's and Y's and J's but we need to be more mindful of our
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