Does anyone know if this e-newsletter is still being published? The last one I saw was #046. Now I cannot seem to find a web site. I thought it was bookmarked! Rats. Help? Boxcab E50
Google Did some searching and found a site that had "Issue #13" on it that contained this contact info at the bottom that might help The Two Footers 534 Armory Road St. Marys, PA 15857 tpbauer@alltel.ne :tb-nerd: :tb-nerd: :tb-nerd: :tb-nerd:
I had also found some individual issues via Googling, etc. I do have them all, from #001 to #046, downloaded. But it has been a while since I'd last looked, so may have missed one or two. And if they've stopped...? Boxcab E50
I was thinking maybe you could try the email address listed and see if that resulted in any information... :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes:
Yes. I was figuring that if nothing turned up tonight, tomorrow morning I'd send a note off. Boxcab E50
Well, I have my answer. Issue #048 of Nov/Dec, 2010 was the last. The site is now down. Gone. Bummer. Boxcab E50
Rats! I get worried about these things. We've lost "Tall Timber Short Lines" in the last few years. I worry about the ongoing stability of many of these historical societies and many of these niche interest publications.
"The Two Footers" was a web only newsletter. Never in print. M2FQ and LID have ceased publishing. I was subscribed to both of them and never got my full moneys worth as they stopped. He's supposedly going to start up again, but it's been just talk now for a couple of years. If he does try, the longer he waits, the harder it will be! For now, any two foot in actual print is probably Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette. Boxcab E50
For narrow gauge and logging we're basically down to "Timber Times," "Narrow Gauge Down Under," and "Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette" - all very able publications and I try to get every issue that I can, but the field is really narrowing down. I am very concerned about this. I see the "Timber Times" folks at events around here now and then and I try to always buy a few back issues. I am also a subscriber. I get concerned also because at logging history events I am usually the least grey-haired person around and also among the youngest, and I am on the home stretch to forty. I do what I can to bring new people into logging history and modeling. I wish I could do it full-time.
I used to get that too. Wondered where it had gone to.When I was living in Colorado I use to hit Caboose Hobbies and pick up NGSLG all the time.Love that magazine! I have always had an intrest in those rickety haulers be it mining logging or what not. The younger fans of steam short lines and that are few and far between. I think a lot of it is exposure really.Kinda sad we dont have a DPM extolling the virtues of steam to the young. No Beebe and his prosaic writing to suck us in ( even if some facts were changed lol)and fall in love with these lines.I am jsut a rabid history buff so I love this stuff. But when all you see is SD 70 Ace's and modeling of modern junk then thats what you get. I would so model a "logging"line based in S E Missouri N E Arkansas area ( along the old Frisco) in On30 or ho scale steam that makes the Fiddeltown and Copperopolis look like the UP! Up to us "young guns" to pass the torch and then maybe a revival will start. Who knows I was an eccentric modeler as a kid.
Well, Tom (A Proud SD&AE Modeler) here is a rabid steam fan and he's in high school, yet. He's done a lot more steam kitbashing in the last few years than a lot of modelers ever do. I feel kind of strange being among the young guys around when I am knocking on the door to 40.
NG&SLG is a great magazine. Put together very nicely. It's the type of publication that can grab 'hold of a non-narrow gauger and pull them in. Boxcab E50
Yea M2FQ never fulfilled my subscription either. I exchanged a couple of emails and got all sorts of excuses. He put out one issue online after ceasing paper publication but that was it. I got a total of 2 issues plus the lame online issue from the subscription. What gets me is that he still advertises even in the Gazette (which is one of the best paper publications). I don't care if people say he's a "nice guy", I never got what was paid for. Dave
I lost with both M2FQ and LID. Being on disability, that's really hard on my starving wallet. He was going to come out with a new publication and those owed for incomplete delivery of M2FQ would receive a copy. So far, nothing here. But I have seen it noted elsewhere, written in a way which sounds like he has put out an issue. Very confusing at best. Between the time which has already passed and the lost cash of how many people, it's a huge turn-off. He'll have a hard time getting restarted, as this all builds a lack of confidence. Myself, I'm gone and won't return. Boxcab E50
