Trolleys, Trams, Traction & Transit

We keep hearing about the Tea Party ; here's the ultimate relevant T party, where T stands for :

Trolleys, Trams, Traction & Transit --- The T-to-the-Fourth-Power Party
A Revolution in Trolley History, Rebirth, and Modeling

The Top Ten Reasons to be a Birther, and join us in our struggle for a Re-Birth of our hobby

1. Breathe new life into T4 modeling (The Four T's : Trolleys, Trams, Traction & Transit)

2. Blog rants suggest introducing new scales and gauges

3. Birth new models by encouraging manufacturers to venture into these new scales

4. Beloved traction journals and magazines have passed away . Replace them

5. Burgeoning light rail : springing up in Europe and in progressive American cities : Not your grandfather's streetcars

6. Build Beyond the rails --- with building fronts, figures, and trackside accessories

7. Beyond traditional publishers --- Beg Kalmbach and/or Carstens to venture into T4 with a new, fresh, American slant on traction & trams, large & small, from streetcars to light rail, from N scale to Mega-scale, from new perspectives to Forced Perspective

8. Bigger than merely reminiscences or historical nostalgia --- Look to the Future

9. Because so many good trolley people have moved to, or retired to, Florida, it's possible to bring an International Trolley Conference to Florida

10. Every modeler intdroduce one new person to the hobby each year, a New Birth of a New Trolley person .
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Destructive Behavior (continued)

11. If a hobby newcomer stops at your place of business, put him down sarcastically when he displays his lack of information or knowledge about the hobby or the prototype.

12. Double all those hints if the customer is a teenager; who needs them, anyway? All they're really interested in is that gaming stuff.

13. If your customer doesn't know what a Brill 67E truck is, sneer ! It took you a long time to learn that stuff, and he should wait until he's familiar with the hobby before jumping into it.

14. Pick a fight with another manufacturer. Better yet, put it in print, so that the entire Internet can read about it.

15. Make your website very large and difficult to navigate. You paid for 50 gigabytes of storage and you're going to get your money's worth !

How to Destroy your Model Trolley Manufacturing Business

1. Criticize and find fault with every model offered by other manufacturers
2. When displaying your wares at a model exhibition, frown at visitors to your booth; glare at everyone who stops by
3. Make sure your website is full of broken links --- if you don't understand that term, maybe that's part of the problem
4. Proudly count your rivets. We'll bet that at least 3 out of every 100 customers care
5. At a model exhibition, leave your display frequently for a cup of coffee, to chat with a friend, or just to look around the Exhibition Hall; after all, your display is practically self-explanatory

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