I tried posting my two cents earlier today, but believe I may have just sent it to Roy H. (sorry Roy)
Tinplate, Hi-rail & Scale are all concepts/terms familiar to me from "O" gauge/scale. There is more animosity & polarization in "O" because of the center 3rd rail. While "S" gaugers/scalers both share insulated 2-rail operation. Also there is a symbiotic relationship between the "S" Hi-railers and "S" Scalers, since they help finance the production of essentially Scale equipment with hi-rail couplers & wheels. American Flyer collectors can operate most hi-rail cars on their layouts without modifying couplers. Hi-railers who change to Kadee couplers can still run AF equipment by setting up a "transistion car" (i.e. a Kadee coupler on one end with an AF coupler on the other end of car). Scale crowd can't. Besides couplers they have track & wheel flanges that are incompatible (too sharp radius curves for non-blinded center drivers, and too narrow wheels which will cause scale wheels to fall into larger gaps of hi-rail/AF track, or cause hi-rail/AF wheels to jump/derail on scale frogs, etc...). I guess you could build modules/club layouts with a loop of both types of track, but there still would be some contention about type of scenery, operating accesories, etc... I decided to change from "O" to "S" because I wanted to go more scale- like and "O Scale" simply takes up too much real estate, while "HO" is just alittle too small to work on/with. I also don't have an AF collection or any affinity for it, so it's easier to go right to Scale & skip hi-rail. Realize Scale is alittle more difficult to work with, but no more so than HO. Besides there still are more extremes such as proto48, proto64 and even proto87. Enough for now, Dennis Hultay Bloomfield NJ --- In [email protected], "Roy Hoffman" wrote: > Just listening to all the definitions explains why we have to have > definitions like "hi-rail". The only problem is that it often confuses > folks that are new to S or looking into it. > > Roy > > Most HO modelers use code 100. > We see them as hi-railers. > HO hi-railers are all around them. > They don't know they're hi-railers. To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). Change message settings, use our CALENDAR or LINKS, 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/
