[Accrs] What do we want to be.

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I agree with Dean. Potential members that are younger could be encouraged to join if they see us running more modern equipment that they can relate to, just like how the current members like to run equipment that they grew up with.

 - Jamie

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 24, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
> 
> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> Members,
> 
> It has been an interesting discussion regarding a logo for the movie that was filmed.  In many respects, what ever club logo we have found, it is from the distant pass.  In this more modern age, we should look for something else that creates a feeling of today.  We want our film to be dynamic and reflect the current modern railroad as well as remembering the past. 
> 
> How many youth of today have seen a steam engine.  Most have not.   We need something that grabs their attention and is similar to what they have seen growing up and see today.    Steam ended around 1955-60.   That is going on 60 years ago.  So anyone born after the mid 60's, doesn't have memories of steam.   F-units, GP7's, etc, but those born in the last 20 years have only seen the modern GE and EMD locos.  
> 
> Same thing with freight cars and passeger trains.
> 
> Let's find a way to project that we are a club of today and see if we can attract more younger members.  If not, our membership will suffer the attrition of age and we will be left without anyone to replace us.    On the HO side, we should have started with modern and worked back in time for our filming.  It would have been more dynamic.
> 
> Just my thoughts.
> 
> Dean
> _______________________________________________
> Accrs mailing list
> Accrs at mail.accrs.org
> https://mail.accrs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/accrs
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.accrs.org/archives/accrs/attachments/20180524/03ea6e77/attachment.html>