Dick & list: I know you are not the only one who feels this way. One reason I have heard articulated is that NMRA weighed cars are too heavy for grades. I was wondering if there were any other reasons.
My preference, primarily based on my experience running that very small hard to see stuff I used to have (I think they called it HO <VBG>) was that properly weighed cars (per NMRA standards) tracked better and resisted stringlining. Further, generally speaking, it does not matter where cars are placed in the train. Since my focus is on operations, I have been re-studying this issue ever since my switch to S scale three years ago to see if my HO experience would transfer over to S. So far the answer is "yes". I am very pleased with the performance of my NMRA weighted cars. No apparent issue with grades either. My S-Helper F3's (A-B) can haul 40 weighed car trains up Edward Loizeaux's 1.4% grades without breaking a sweat. HOWEVER, brass engines pulling weighed cars may be a different matter all together. Since I don't own any brass (yet), I do not know the answer. Of course I am not going to lose sleep over this issue - my planned layout will have grades for helper operations and I can rely on my S-helper diesels to "help". <G> Ok, back to taxes . . . . :-( John Gibson Rocklin, CA The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
