Hi Folks,
I've been following the on going threads with much interest. Wow! Is
it time for the annual "How do we get people into S thread?" already!
I really need to mark the calendar! My favorite line was from whomever
said he liked being in S because we stood out in a room. Man, you
should be in politics. Talk about understatement! Face it. As train
guys, we're wacky, and being in S makes us wackier than the average
wacky train guy! Someone once "S" stood for subversive. That's when I
knew I had to join.
I model 1952 not because of the motive power, and not because I have
fond remembrances of a time ten years before I was born, but because of
the variety of passenger cars running at that time. If I ever think
about going back to HO because of all the extra railroad I could fit in
my space, or because of some new product they have, all I have to do is
look at one of my S scale 80 footers. They are just so beautiful.
I'll never go back! I think there will always be an audience for the
transition era because of the variety of equipment running then. The
best steamers. The colorful diesels. Viable passenger trains. The
WW1 freight cars mixing with the new PS1's and all.
Lastly, it may come as no surprise with my devotion to passenger cars,
but the coolest operating accessory ever made is the AF mail car! Is
there another operating car that you work without stopping the train?
Is there another accessory that you can "miss"? (If you don't push the
button just right the mail bag doesn't get picked up, right?) Was
there another operating passenger train accessory ever? (Sorry Ed. I
don't count any cars that load milk cans. It's mail or nothing!)
Jamie Bothwell
> American Flyer, except for the
> steamer I received as a child and some action cars like the
> mail-pickup car.
>
> - Earl Henry, Jr., Nashville, TN.
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