[Accrs-ho] March Good Guys

[ACCRS HO Scale]

Lee,

Maybe I should just leave you message alone, but there are some 
interesting comments here.   Since I wasn't there, I don't know who 
might have shouted you down, but I have a hard time believing this was 
anything done on purpose.   Also, I don't know of anyone that tells you 
what cars to run or not.   I know that I feel that trains should look 
prototypical per the era.  I wouldn't want to see a 53' container car 
running with a bunch of 1950-60 style 40' box cars.  There is a certain 
level that should be maintained in our trains to keep them prototypical 
by era.

As far as I know, all major projects get member approval.   I know 
recently I discovered some tunnel portals that didn't like double 
stacks.  I widened a couple of portals in the last couple of weeks.   It 
wasn't voted on as it was more of a maintenance item than a major 
construction project.  I still have a couple more to fix.   You even 
said that was a good idea when I discovered the problem.

As far as cars on the layout, everybody can run their own cars or use 
club cars.  Personally, I try to keep "hidden" in some semblance of 
order.   I try to keep club cars restricted to tracks 1 through 4.   
That leaves 5 through 9 for members to set up their own trains.   As we 
have more cars than those 4 tracks can hold, I have placed the extra 
ones in the club drawers under hidden.  Since the more modern style cars 
are the most popular to use, I put the older style in the drawers.  I 
don't see that as telling anyone what cars they can run.

I think that we should respect each other and have fun.  I don't believe 
there is anyone there that is trying to run the club and I don't think 
anyone will be trying to tell us which railroad we can model.   I have 
seen a wide variety of equipment on the layout recently.  It seemed to 
me that everyone was having fun.

Just for the record, I am not a fan of "Thomas the Tank" but others are 
and run him.   If they are not there, I won't run him.

Just my take.

Dean




On 3/9/2015 4:20 PM, ACCRS HO Scale wrote:
> Message From: Lee And Joan Buckner  buckyrailfan at aol.com
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> Group:
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> While I've complained about the DCC vis DC issue for the upcoming 
> show,  and I wasn't able to say my piece before getting shouted down, 
> what upsets me most is that we have a couple of members that think the 
> club is "theirs", and not "ours", and their don't have to follow club 
> procedures, such as getting club approval for a project they want, and 
> just go ahead, and do it.  That is why I made the comment that the 
> back of my vests say ACCRS, and not their names.  Also they rule what 
> cars we can run on the layout.  What is next, we have to model the 
> railroad they do?
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> I expressed my concern to John Kohlberg about this on Friday night.
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> I express my condolences to you John, and to Ed for having to go 
> through all this, but I feel I have to take a stand on this subject.
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> Lee
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