Gene, you are absolutely correct. Back when I was a kid with my first
issues of Model Trains magazine (couldn't afford MR) they ran listing of
all the H0 train sets and many of those sets actually contained Atlas
track. So much of the H0 RTR world was defined by Atlas track. Because
of the much smaller market and a desire for each S manufacturer to make
some money 'doing their own thing' we now have several brands of non
interchangeable track systems, of which non are anywhere near
complete. In our small club we have one guy using Gargraves, one using
AF/SHS combo, and six using 126 or smaller. The two hi-railer's are
severely limited in what they can do with their layouts where the scale
guys have several options for everything except cross overs and fancy
switches.
I believe the S world would best be served by one of the two majors (AM
& SHS) dropping out of making track and supporting the other--only if
they both supported making a complete line of track products. However,
at this time if you consider rail size itself only SHS would survive in
the scale world. However, SHS's lack of turnout sizes, and cross overs
plus perhaps a smaller rail size option makes it difficult to make a
case for making a scale layout with their current line. American
models, Custom Track and any other rail size would be a problem in the
scale world.
So because all the track guys want to make a few bucks selling stuff
they will continue their separate ways and frustrate anybody coming into
the scale!
Bob Werre
G C wrote:
> Well, As a person who is a somewhat later entry into the world of S,
> in my most humble opinion I see a great deal of value in having a
> turnout that will handle what
>
> I thought S wanted to grow. Some lament not having enough ready to run
> sets available to attract new people into the world of S. Don't you
> think a universal turnout would be a great device for doing that as
> well.Realizing that a lot of hard work went into refining standards, I
> believe that having a vehicle as it were to allow folks to have the
> best of all worlds would be a plus. Maybe my view is in the minority,
> but I see it as a positive one for S. If some folks want to stick with
> just scale let them; same goes for the AF folks.
>
> Gene Cimino
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