@Ray Lombardo posted:... why is it the responsibility of the TCA or EDTCA to grow the hobby? What are the manufacturers (Lionel, MTH, Atlas, others) spending to advertise?
Isn't it clear that it's everyone's responsibility, manufacturers and hobbyists, TCA and EDTCA, included?
It's difficult, and we see this everyday on this forum and elsewhere, to hold those of us who like this hobby all together because there's always a natural tendency to segregate ourselves by interests, talents, and demographics, whether it's toy vs. scale model, 'O' Gauge vs. 'O' Scale, tinplate vs modern, electronics vs. none, runner vs. collector, tinkerer vs. operator, etc.
I give the OGR Forum moderators here a lot of credit for accomplishing this here, for the most part successfully.
For the sake of the future of the hobby are we all in this together or not?
Should these organizations, and their shows or meets, be inclusive or exclusive? To be clear, we've heard advocates for both sides here in this thread so far.
Mike
