I wanted to start a thread after reading a few posts in hminky's thread "Making Model Railroadz". I'd like to hear other Trainzers positive or negative experiences when dealing with the model railroad publishing community.
I too reached out to MRH about writing an article introducing Trainz to their readers through my Frisco High Line route. After browsing through my Frisco High Line thread the editor of MRH, Joe Fugate contacted me with several questions. This was promising because he showed genuine interest and it was evident he was not very familiar with any v scale platform.
Needless to say after a few email discussions, a well prepared outline of my article he announced MRH would not be moving forward with the idea. He expressed others' concerns in organization about how v scale fits into the traditioal hobby. Some just didn't get it. I told him I appreciated his honesty and understood their reluctance. I mentioned it was simply an extension to the hobby and not a threat to extinguish the traditional hobby. It makes sense he didn't want to bite the hand that feeds him with all those advertisers in the magazine. I doughbt NV3 will be lining up any time soon to take out an add in MRH.
It was disappointing to see a company leveraging technology to make their space in publishing turn me down. Oh well. Joe did contact me back after a few months of no communication. He asked if I might still be interested. I told him sure but never heard back from him again.
I too reached out to MRH about writing an article introducing Trainz to their readers through my Frisco High Line route. After browsing through my Frisco High Line thread the editor of MRH, Joe Fugate contacted me with several questions. This was promising because he showed genuine interest and it was evident he was not very familiar with any v scale platform.
Needless to say after a few email discussions, a well prepared outline of my article he announced MRH would not be moving forward with the idea. He expressed others' concerns in organization about how v scale fits into the traditioal hobby. Some just didn't get it. I told him I appreciated his honesty and understood their reluctance. I mentioned it was simply an extension to the hobby and not a threat to extinguish the traditional hobby. It makes sense he didn't want to bite the hand that feeds him with all those advertisers in the magazine. I doughbt NV3 will be lining up any time soon to take out an add in MRH.

It was disappointing to see a company leveraging technology to make their space in publishing turn me down. Oh well. Joe did contact me back after a few months of no communication. He asked if I might still be interested. I told him sure but never heard back from him again.
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