Large Scale Central

Thank you Bob McCown

As we approach the annual Christmas Holiday season; I’d like to say a special THANK YOU to young Bob McCown.

All year, every month, and every day, you supply us with a great opportunity to communicate with a wonderful group of people.
Through the Chat Room, on the Forums, and on the many other facilities of LSC, we get to meet others who are enjoying this fine hobby, and share with them, news, information, ideas and conversations; yes…and arguments…along with moments of sadness when we see one of our friends pass away.

Most times; even in the midst of a diagreement, we see great humour drift through the heat of the moment, bringing a chuckle to even the most thick skinned of us. We also celebrate the dreams of others and their accomplishments.

Thank you Bob, for showing a great tolerance for our verbal mistakes, and our sometimes childish fuss over many questionable “Nothings”.

This Web page sets the standard for FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, AND SPEECH, thanks to your fine style of moderation.

I’m sure that all members of this LSC FAMILY will join me in wishing you a great Holiday Season; a pleasing Year’s End; and the hope for another GREAT NEW YEAR to come …
…Good Health, and Happines to you Bob…and your family;
Thank you for being our friend.

Hear! Hear!

Thanks Freddy. I try and maintain a hands off approach, and I like to think I ‘think different’ than the other sites owners/moderators.

One thing I’ve actively avoided is trying to make money with the site, since that brings a whole different, deeper level of “keeping the customer happy”. But I understand the draw of it. Looking at the stats since Jan 1, as of right now, there have been 12,546,415 pages of information delivered. 12 million views of the forums, articles, etc. That’s a lot of free information, and its only natural that you think “Damn, at even 10 cents a page, I could retire in a few years!” (that’s $1,254,641.50 for the math challenged). But I also know that nobody’ll pay me that kind of money. But what it does do for me is realize the value of what we have here. And its all user-generated. I’m not running around hither and yon, doing interviews, selling the site. You people are providing the content, I’m just providing the venue. You all come here because you want to, and think that the information here is valuable in some way. And its all free.

Let’s look at it a different way. We have 597 users that have contributed to the site in some manner (forum posts, articles, chat, etc). Out of 2,125 users registered, that’s over 25% of people that signed up. At the ‘standard’ rate of $20 a year, thats $11,940. Won’t get me to retire, but that would be a nice bit of extra change every year. But, again, I realize that if I had ‘premium content’ that only was accessible to paying members, that 597 figure would probably be 97. You can’t MAKE people pay for information that they can get for free anywhere else. People will pay you (and some have) because they want to support you and what you’re doing.

So, in a round-about way, this is my way of saying “Thanks, Fred, but in reality, its you guys.”

I’ll third that motion, or emotion! and Happy Holiday’s, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to all the members here on Large Scale Central from The Regal. Now go buy MY trains in the classifieds!!! hee hee LOL

I will fourth, fith and sixth that motion. Thanks Bob. Really get a kick following some of the threads up until you Ding it which is not often. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

Wow! a most impressive tribute by Fred and an equally impressive reply by Bob. Makes me mighty glad to be a small part of it.

Thanks to Bob for his unselfish and dedicated efforts and to Fred for reminding us all of what we have here.

Merry Christmas to all…

This is a great site with great people. If it was not for this site I probably would have given up a long time ago. Its sites like this that really inspire newbies like me. I have learned so much in less then a year. I would never have been able to get this knowledge anywhere else. Thanks for a great site and Happy Holidays to everyone.

Thanks, Bob.

We learn a lot here, and even have a place to blow off some steam. No, that’s not a global warming joke. :smiley:

There are some here who enjoy pushing the envelope to see just how much it takes to get that first “Ding,” though. You know who we are! :lol:

What Fred said, Bob

I just ran down to the Bheer fridge to grab an Export Ale so I could raise a glass and offer a toast to Bob. Here’s to you Mr. Forum Owner. You help make our trains go 'round.

I wish I could think of a funnier line :o

Thanks Bob

Sniff, I’m all misty. You guys are the best.

Ric Golding said:
Sniff, I'm all misty. You guys are the best.
Good Lord, not here. That's not allowed. :D

Yes, thank you Bob for setting up and maintaining the site and thank you everybody else for your contributions.

Allow me to 3chime in with agreement to the above sentiment. A hearty thank You Bob.
Dave

Way to go, Fred! Nicely put!

Way to go Bob! Graciously accepted!

LSC - a Class1 outfit!

:wink: :slight_smile:

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Way to go, Fred! Nicely put!

Way to go Bob! Graciously accepted!

LSC - a Class1 outfit!

:wink: :slight_smile:


Amen!

Oops! Sorry, Tony!!!

Could not have said it better.
Great job Bob and keep it up.

Yea the boss here isn’t too bad to let things just kind of drift along. Used to hang out at three other sites but now it’s just right here. To much censorship at two of them for me so I faded away. The other one was a manufacture website and it was hip hip hurray for them unless you put in a bad word about they’re manufacturing problems and zip, your gone.

I guess I’ll stay here until the end?

The old fardt in Ore-gun.

Great site Bob. Impressive stats too. Pretty big numbers.
I have a lot of fun here and learn even more.
Ralph

Bob,

I think Fred’s sentiments are appropriate and timely. TOC directed me here and I am glad he did. I have contributed, which is a way of “giving back”, which I am wont to do.

Thank you all for being here.

Barry - BBT