Andy, You comments are right on. A K4 is too much road specific for a small market base like S and Lionel killed the hopes to get a scale 2-8-2 from SHS.
Simon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew_Malette Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Plastic K-4 On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:07:59 -0400, Gary Chudzinski wrote > Posted by Roy Hoffman > Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:45 am (PST) > While I'm not one to tell our manufacturers how to come up with good > marketable products, I am somewhat amazed that we don't have a PRR > K-4. Whenever a new company enters the HO arena, they usually do it > with a K-4. It seems that the HO companies are falling all over > themselves trying to produce the "perfect" K-4. Do they know something > that we don't? A plastic R-T-R K-4 would be a smash hit in S, in my > humble opinion. Roy > > Roy, > It seems to me that a PRR K-4 is too road specific. To create a larger > market for SHS, I would think a USRA Light Mike or 0-8-0 would be more > in line with the 2-8-0 design if they plan to make more steam locomotives. > > Gary Chudzinski > Hi gary, Agreed, 100%. The USRA Light 2-8-2/0-6-0 is as common as you can get! Flyonel blew it when they ignored the S scale marketplace with their version of the USRA 2-8-2. They also made it harder for someone like SHS to do the USRA Light Mike in that there is now reduced marketplace in the H-rail/Flyer end, where all the action is. cheers, Andy Malette [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
