Dave....One interesting explanation related to me by a Past President of the NMRA was the threat of a lawsuit by a major DCC manufacturer if the NMRA ever published a list of non-complying products that made them "look bad" and/or "hurt sales". That is one reason why such a DCC list was never published back in the early days of DCC. I remember suggesting the publication of a list of just products that did meet the conformance tests, but even that was considered too risky by the so- called management of the day. So the consumer was left on his own to search out the infamous football and make his own semi-educated decisions about what to buy. But maybe things have changed recently. I don't belong to the NMRA anymore and am out of touch. Ed L.
--- In [email protected], "David Engle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In previous years, NMRA issued certificates of conformance to NMRA standards > for most commercial products, and published the information on those > products accordingly. If these switches were tested and passed/failed > according to the standards, that was put out in the NMRA Bulletin to all > members at the time. . .I have not seen anything of NMRA doing this for > some time, 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/
