Hi Richard Karnes - et all,
I enjoyed your retort and no stone, tomatoes etc. will follow from me!
Maybe things have changed since I created, produced and marketed my very
precise cast and machined three point brass track gauges that worked with the
NMRA, NASG (new and -old standards) at the time, and maybe I have gotten tooo
old and memory fails....but it seems that the 7/8" S gauge is an aproximation
of 4'-81/2" .....granted close, but not exact....and certainly a better, more
visually appealing "look" than O gauge's 11/4".
Now, maybe I have some new things to learn.... I am always glad to do that.
Primarily my point is that we need to consider everyone's best interest when
something gets produced ( certainly there are limitations and some things that
just won't work), however if an item can be made to work for scale, hi-rail and
toy S fans, there is a broader appeal and greater likelyhood of getting that
item to the S market.
My comment about "rivet counters" did try to say that this was not a
dispareging classifaction,and that myself might be counted amongst them. There
is a real prejudice towards non-scalers as their is in every scale I have
modeled in and run stuff in .... all scales all the way from 11/2" scale live
steamers down to Z gauge....all these groups have their prejudices towards
Toy/Hi-rail versus scale exactitudes no matter the scale. S is one of the
smallest groups and needs ALL of us to push the growth and product selection.
You know all this... you are pretty much a GURU of S, so I am not telling you
anything new.
Just know that I like having fun with my hobby and have always had a special
place in my heart for S....this due to A.C. Gilbert and 3/16" scale American
Flyer trains that I earned by selling many subscriptions for the Chicago
Tribune, door to door, climbing 4-story walk up's, and by a fatefull pre
Christmas day when I went downtown to Marshal Fields toy department, and was
astonished by a display that had two rail t section track, realistic looking,
properly proportioned, did I say realistic looking?, scale like trains that
belched smoke and chuged and whistled...goose bumps again... WOW was I
impressed....I wanted to know what that was, who made the leap forward, I
WANTED THI STUFF.... that thrill has never left me.
I imagine that I will expierience a similar thrill if and when I can afford an
SHS consolidation with DCC and Tsunami sound, and the greatest part is I can
have it MY WAY, whether that is scale or AF/Hi-rail...cool huh?
Oh and those "nitty - picky rivet counters" will be complaining about something
that isn't right, maybe the dome placement or size, or the wrong piping
diameter, or it should have a dual crosscompound air pump, instead of two
singles, and you know what? Great, they can change it to their liking,
changing, customizing, super detailing, repainting etc. etc. what fun and
maybe a prize winner at a convention. That too is cool....everybody
wins....that's my point.
Lots of the best things to you,
Peter Loeb
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