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Railway-wise, there is an incredible resource available
on the net as well, even including informative websites run by organizations whom I could
not get to answer requests for photos and information on their activities for the whole
10-year existence of L&RP. Now I can see what they're up to, and even
e-mail them.
Besides providing straight news about railway preservation projects, we will also host a
forum for opinions about what has been, is being, and should be done in our field.
We'll provide plenty of ours, and hope you will also. Occasionally, we'll raise some
hackles, and invite you to do the same. Railway Preservation News is not
simply a "good news" trade journal that rubber stamps press releases; it will
attempt to look deeper into issues. As the service is free, the threat of canceled
subscriptions cannot color editorial content. Even though we work without
remuneration and likewise cannot pay contributors, we hope you'll support us with
information and photos as needed. From time-to-time, we may even scan an old photo
out of a book to illustrate a point (it's often the only way to obtain a copy), and hope
you won't take us to court for copyright infringement. Our only goal is to further
the field of railway preservation, not to make money.
As "page count" is less of an issue here, we hope to use many photos to
illustrate our newspieces, and hope you'll keep a good supply coming. At present, we
lack a good slide scanner, and prefer prints unless you can scan us the slides yourself.
Many of our articles will be about subjects that other writers don't cover; saving
roundhouses is an example. We're less likely to report on events (261 runs to St.
Paul, for instance), than we are lessor subjects like the saving of endangered structures,
track and equipment. We also hope to report in more detail on projects that are
underway, with hopes these details will help others attempting to do the same thing.
We have both taken part in preservation projects ourselves, and are quite aware of the
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