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Model Railroad Hobbyist RailPro Contributor Needed
CPRail:
My father and I have both purchased RailPro from Bill - and we are both born and raised Canucks. Unfortunately, Bill is no longer able to import the RP stuff commercially into Canada due to the certification issues, but I can import it myself directly.
Same issue with paint like Scalecoat or Tru-Color - I have to raid the US hobby shops whenever I visit, or get it mailed to a parcel pick-up place at the border and pick-it up.
TwinStar:
Sounds like it's easier to get weed into Canada than RailPro.
KPack:
Lol, well in regards to the original topic, Jacob and I need to get back to writing that article. Life has pulled me away a bit. Time for me to get back to it.
-Kevin
Alan:
--- Quote from: TwinStar on October 25, 2018, 04:58:04 PM ---Sounds like it's easier to get weed into Canada than RailPro.
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Ironically, true. In Canada pot is legal and RailPro isn't. What a world we live in.
Pequeajim:
--- Quote from: Alan on September 07, 2018, 08:29:41 AM ---I would suggest you frame the article in a "just the facts, maam" style so as not to rile up the DCC crowd. Take great care in not making it feel like us versus them. It doesn't take much to start the negative comments flowing on MRH or any forum. Even though in essence it is a sales pitch don't make it sound like a sales pitch. Remove superlatives from your vocabulary.
Brevity may also work to your advantage. Just take a look at the DCC article in this month's issue. Holy smokes. All that just to play with trains, you've got to be kidding me. If you can write such that a casual reader will get the fact RP performs all the same functions as those described in the DCC article except with no user involvement required then you will have done RP a great service.
RP being a proprietary system with a sole manufacturer and the exclusion of N scale will likely be the most popular objections. Don't hide from them. An effective presentation style is to admit and address the objections early in the article. This approach tends to convey honesty which then carries through the remainder of the article. Much the same way forum members relate to people who admit their mistakes in layout building threads.
If I may add further comment, good presentations often have a common underlying theme throughout their entirety, something to tie the whole article together. Since it is people reading the article and people are emotional it is wise to use a theme that elicits an emotional connection. Ask yourselves "Why did I buy RP?" Drill the answer down to a single descriptive word. That word then becomes the unifying theme of the article. For me personally it was simplicity. Not that I can't understand complexity but rather why should I when the hardware will do it for me. If simplicity is the theme the article would quietly weave simplicity into the phrasing. For example, compare these paragraphs...
"Locomotive advanced settings can be accessed via the wrench icon found on the locomotive screen. This will display a page showing minimum start speed and momentum settings. Select the minimum start speed and adjust the setting up or down by turning the throttle knob. Repeat the process with the momentum setting and then press exit to return to the locomotive screen. The locomotive will now respond to throttle changes based on the settings you selected."
"A locomotive's minimum start speed and momentum can be easily changed with a simple tap of your finger and twist of the adjustment knob."
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Well said Alan. The point I get from your post is that we call model railroading "the great American hobby", so keeping any article or post passive and informative is the best path forward...
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