Jeff Scarbrough wrote (a long time ago):
>>>> As of this afternoon, The Model Train Magazine Index has moved to:
>>>>>formatting link>>>>
>>>>> I want to thank Accurail for their 25 months of great support of the
>>>>> index and for their generosity in making it freely available to model
>>>>> railroaders everywhere. Please support them next time you visit the
>>>>> hobby shop. They're great people, with the best interests of the hobby
>>>>> and hobbyists always on their minds.
>>>>>
>>>>> The move is the result of the sale of the site to Kalmbach; I wish them
>>>>> well with their new index!
>>>>> jeff scherb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To Kalmbach? One can't help but wonder if they're going to devote equal
>>>> time and effort to indexing publications from other companies as they
>>>> will no doubt devote to indexing their own.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andy Sperandeo's editorial in the June 2000 Model Railroader says the index
>>> will continue to include other publishers and update it for current >>> publications.
>>
>>
>> Yea, right, ok.
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> Far be it for me to be Andy's protector, but give the man a chance!
> It won't be too difficult to see if they are being even-handed...no
> matter what magazine you are looking for, guess who's name you'll see?
> So they get the advertising benefit, and the good will...
The ten-year run of hosting of the Model Train Index at Kalmbach is over.
The web site says:
To our readers:
The advancement in Internet browser technology has created an insurmountable problem for the Model Train Index, which has been a fixture on Trains.com for many years.
The information in the Model Train Index and its integrated software originally were written in MS-DOS language 20 years ago by a train hobbyist on his PC as a personal project. It was not designed for the Internet and the software is unique to the index.
Kalmbach Publishing Co. purchased the index and its software many years ago. We created a website interface for the index and made the index a featured part of the Trains.com website.
Today, the progression of technologies on the Internet and the antiquated software of the Model Train Index have intersected to the point that we can no longer offer the index to our website visitors because we can no longer keep the index free of viruses or other even more significant Internet security risks.
The index software cannot be rewritten to update its security level, nor is there any method of transferring the index text information to a more modern software platform since the design of the index software and the index text information are integral to each other.
Because of these issues, we have reluctantly removed the index from Trains.com.