Love it!

Double take

What's Neat: Scott Sanders' locos and rolling stock

Awesome models !!  You have real talent.  I especially like the MKT loco's, they look EXACTLY like I used to see them!!

Nice but.....

Christian based staff but...

I've always enjoyed the magazine and will continue to but the language and small talk at the beginning of this video kinda tarnishes your image.   Excellent work though.

Not Christian-based staff

The owners, Joe and Patty Fugate, are Christians and we have a dedication on the masthead page, but the staff and contributors may or may not share our beliefs, so we're not a Christian-based staff.

Just wanted to be clear on that.

Your point about off-color remarks in videos is understood and I will ask Ken and his crew to keep it clean, but I will also be asking not telling. We certainly don't expect everyone who ever gets published in MRH to also share our beliefs and we're not going to play hard-line morality policeman. If it gets too raunchy, then of course we won't run it, but also don't be surprised if something borderline does get published.

My personal view is you have to pick your battles and antagonizing contributors isn't a good idea either. I have and will continue to run stuff I may not always agree with like the bikini-clad fruit distributor box art in a recent PFE Getting Real column. 

We have women in the hobby too, and I personally dislike treating females as second-class citizens we can exploit as sleazy attention-getters - but on the other hand, that box art is a part of railroading history from the 1950s, and censoring that isn't good either - so we published it. We try to keep things a pretty conservative level of G-rated. For instance, if an advertiser sends in an ad with a pretty young thing in a negligee or a bikini, then the ad will get rejected. (Some may argue that's a pretty prudish form of G-rated these days ... won't disagree, but that's one of our publishing standards, so get used to it.)

Just remember, the owners and some staff do share our beliefs, but we don't expect or require contributors and advertisers to necessarily share our beliefs, nor do we expect it of every staff member. For staff, we are more interested in your passion for the hobby and your skill at the job we have than we are in agreement with our beliefs.

Reported Four Letter Words Before Mag Pub Joe

Joe, i emailed you on off color language. Why no editing? 

This whole series is the same gril with new dress each issue nothing new. 

Four letter words

Haha, I hung out in the railyards as a kid and the crews were colorful even back then. I know how to separate language from actions and I'd prefer hearing the uncensored version, for example Beyonce and JayZ's grammy performance last night was spoiled by beeping out key words.....DaveB 

Realism to a new level

Exquisite detail & weathering to admire.  Recommended viewing.