Roy, my friend-It is better to be criticized for trying to do something than to do nothing. Carry on...
Chuck Porter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:42 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: NASG pet project car > You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but your logic is flawed. > If the NASG was to refuse to sponsor new products because of a flop > (or debacle as you so eloquently put it), projects like the Pullmans, > which came well after the Brick Building would not have come about. I > pushed for the building back when S didn't have a lot going for it in > the structures department. It was a chance to get us off the ground > with that project and the Armco Steel Building, which has enjoyed > modest success. However, I don't have to quote HST when I accept > responsibility for that failure. When the NASG came out with the GN > caboose, it was a flop, but that didn't stop us from continuing to put > out Flyer cars each year and learn from the mistake. It would be a > huge mistake to pull back and not take chances for the betterment of S > because on one debacle. > > Bill pretty much summed up the fine line that the NASG walks when he > mentioned that the Pullman project was OK since it didn't involve a > completely new product. When is a project OK, and when is it not OK? > I had lots of arguments with manufacturers who felt that the NASG was > in direct competition with them. We tried very hard not to do that, > but once again, you have to walk that fine line. Many of our > manufacturers depend on whatever business S engenders for their > livelihood and that has to be considered. I just hope that you'll be > fair and trust the NASG leadership to do their best for S even if the > best sometimes doesn't work out. > > Roy Hoffman > >> >> Actually, I am somewhat personally surprised that the NASG would >> even consider any manufacturing projects after the Roy Hoffman >> debacle with the NASG sponsored factory kit that Dick Karnes has >> been so diligently trying to get finished. Dick's my candidate for >> sainthood if he is ever able to clean up that mess. >> Ron Sebastian >> Des Plaines >> > > > > > > > > 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/
