Fortunately for you all I have kept my peace but the k 4 debate has sparked my interest so I thought I would toss in my 2 cents. I agree that the K4 is for a very narrow market what we need is the main motive power of the French Broad and Rocky Bottom. It was a 2-2-2 Camelback run with the tender forward. Only problem was the engineer Shorty Grimes could not see over the tender so they took bailing wire and attached a stepladder to the top of the cab roof and duck taped a chair to the ladder for shorty. It was a little rough in the winter time but it worked. It would be a real attention-getter on any layout. Bald Parson in Tennessee overlooking Parson Bald
----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Chudzinski Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Plastic K-4 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
