This is an interesting conversation that I missed, probably because it came up
in the context of the GE 70-ton diesels, posts I did not bother to read. Over
the 20 years that I have been associated with S scale, people have talked a
great deal. Real accomplishment, however, has not matched the talk. Doesn't
it go that way with anything? One has to dream.
If mere chatter frightens away a potential manufacturer, well, that is
unfortunate, but I doubt that people wil refrain from discussing what they
would like. And some will dream big and think that they can somehow produce a
particular item or connect with someone who can. Usually, that does not
happen. About eighteen months ago, I was a culprit: I talked about a MILW
ribbed side box car and did connect with someone who produced it in O scale.
He told me the price for 100 copies of the item would be about one hundred
Dollars.
Twenty-six people wrote me saying they would commit. Well, when I heard the
price, I did not pursue further. Then Mr. Jim King produced a Southern Railway
low-side gon. I contacted him, and he was interested. He says the MILW ribbed
side car is on his list. The Southern low side gon is certainly a quality
item. For those who do not have it, I highly recommend a purchase if their
time frame coincides with that model.
My point is that chatter about doing something does sometimes actually lead to
production of the item.
Tom
PS: As for items in brass, well, I have no idea. I do not have the cash for
most of that, and I suspect that many do not. Brass is a market reserved for
the well-heeled, or at least for the highly paid. I see the brass market as
quite apart from the plastic market.
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