12-19-2013, 03:03 PM
I do notice that there was a pretty big letter-to-the-editor In MR saying that Pelle Soeborg was portraying a safety violation in a photo of a crew member moving a coupler without leaving enough space between the car and the loco. It's a fantasy world, but in this case, the MR editors seem to have felt the letter had a point -- no sense encouraging anyone to violate safety rules by example. This could certainly apply to anyone representing a car racing a train to the crossing . Depicting a suicide, though -- yucch. I would hope that magazine editors would have the good judgment not to print a photo of a model doing that -- that's what editors are for. (That was also the point I made in my letter to MR -- the editors shouldn't have let animal cruelty through in a family magazine.)
Nobody says you can't model, say, a train going to a concentration camp on your private home layout if that's what turns your crank. On the other hand, there are limits to good taste, and nobody's saying that people aren't entitled to go yuccch or even worse if they see it. That's what editors are for.
Nobody says you can't model, say, a train going to a concentration camp on your private home layout if that's what turns your crank. On the other hand, there are limits to good taste, and nobody's saying that people aren't entitled to go yuccch or even worse if they see it. That's what editors are for.