NEB&W Needed Work & Donations

Last Update: 2007-01-13

Please realize we have very limited resources, and while we read every e-mail, we may not be able to respond in depth to your question(s). We may respond indirectly by researching the issues and posting them on our site at some later date.

    Any information you send may get posted (credited to you, of course), unless you state otherwise in your message.

    Please look around our site a little bit BEFORE you e-mail us, as it is frustrating and annoying for us to get a question about information we have already taken the time and trouble to post. (Okay, our site is continuing undergoing revisions as to how to make the information more readily available and not just tucked away in some not-so-obvious spot, but at least do a little poking around.)

    Questions regarding information that is posted on the members-only section of our site will NOT be answered if you are not a current member. We may be prompted to do research based on any questions posed to us, and post the answer, but again, this information won't be available to you unless you join the website membership.

    You can't visit us unless you are an RPI student.

    We DON'T appraise or buy collections nor can we sell them for you.

    We DON'T deal in Lionel.

    We DON'T have employment records of railroads or car builders.

    We are NOT a temp agency, and we don't supply students or members to do any form of modeling or otherwise work for you. And remember, professional modelers get $75 - 100 an hour.

    Our interest is standard gauged equipment of the North American rail system, particularly in the time of steam locos. Our knowledge and interest in the peripheral industries, their processes, etc. is mainly limited to the physical exterior attributes, i.e., that what can be modeled in HO scale.

    We CAN accept donations as a not-for-profit institution. Please understand our model railroad needs are very specific. We don't have display space or archival storage space for valued items not used on the layout. In accepting any donations, we reserve the right to sell items we can't use at a nominal price so the items get used and we can raise some funds for the club. (Back issues of the hobby magazines in general have little resale value.)

    This is an RPI student club, run for the benefit of the members and RPI students. If you have any complaints, but are not a current member of the club and/or website, and/or an RPI student, frankly, keep you opinions to yourself!

    If you have email, don't write. Any letters without a stamped self-addressed envelope will not be answered, and even if you do include this, we still may not get around to answering you. Our mailing address is:

    Our UPS address is:

    Will Gill set up our webmaster in terms of making the system work, so he is the best to contact if a page doesn't load, or other technical problems.

    Ian Sadowski is the club president.

    John Nehrich writes a lot of what you see here, so blame him for spelling and/or factual errors, links that don't work, etc. Also, he is the one who normally activates website memberships, so if you are having a problem, contact him first. (John purposely has an unlisted number at home due to the number of calls he got. If you get a hold of his phone number, do NOT call him at home. If you are reading this, you have e-mail (nehrij @ rpi.edu - remove the space on each side of the @ symbol), so use that!)