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Welcome to the first "issue" of Railway Preservation News, our new website.  This site came about from the loss of Locomotive & Railway Preservation magazine, for which this writer was proud to be Preservation News Editor for all 63 issues, for a ten-year period beginning in 1986.  The Preservation News column continued briefly in Pentrex's RailNews magazine, but had to be dropped due to a reduction in page count.  Though several ideas have been passed around concerning the revival of L&RP, perhaps through a non-profit organization, none has reached fruition yet, thus we hope this website might help fill the gap.  The costs of paper, printing, postage, advertising, marketing, sending out renewal notices, etc., have thus far made it impossible to produce the magazine profitably, though it did come close a few times.

The website is funded at present through the generosity of Mr. Hume Kading of Arlington, Texas, who bemoaned L&RP's loss and wondered how to continue the effort.  Hume is Webmaster, and has provided this novice writer's first internet-capable computer.  He is long associated with the Southwest Railroad Historical Society's Age of Steam Museum in Dallas, and is editor of that organization's Stack Talk newsletter.  We are pursuing non-profit status for the website, so as to make donations tax-deductible.  Meanwhile, your thoughts and participation are most welcome.  We are both just learning here.

My brief exposure to the internet has been mind-boggling.  The internet is much like having the Library of Congress in one's basement; it is said to be the largest repository of information on Earth.  My initial impression of it being just a chat-line for a few lonely computer geeks was not correct at all.

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