Bill, et al, While I also sense that the numbers of "true to scale" S modelers is getting smaller, I think that the demand for more detailing and more correct to prototypical equipment is increasing among all modelers. That is one of the reasons, I presume, that Lionel put so much detailing (relatively speaking) into the Mikado. IMHO, the equipment used, and some of the layouts we see coming from these "Hirail-Scalers" rival some of the "true to scale" efforts. Cheers :) Roy Inman
> From: Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:07:20 -0800 > To: [email protected] > Subject: S-Scale Modeling Hobby's future (was: Re: MR circulation) > >> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:43:31 -0800 >> From: Richard Karnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> <cut> model railroaders are dying faster than we are being created. >> >> Railroading is not in the forefront of the modern young man's mind. >> Trains mean nothing to him beyond traffic-stoppers at grade >> crossings. >> >> Fifty years ago railroads represented adventure and romance, and >> that was the draw for us who are now oldsters. > > With a shrinking community of S scale model railroaders one thing > seems certain: there will be a lot of secondhand S scale models > flooding the marketplace. > -- > Bill Roberts > 60 degrees F and sunny in San Francisco > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > 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/
