Seems to me that since big L is going their own way, in effect we don't even HAVE a hi-rail wheel standard.
Manufacturers of lots of other stuff, from ball point to automobile tires to computers have all gotten together and come to common ground on standards. But there obviously has to be a motivation. The pocketbook is usually a pretty good tool for sure. But I wonder what would happen if the major SIGs in model trains spoke as one voice for a true S hi-rail standard if that would help persuade Lionel? I don't know if it would be possible to convince say 1,000 Flyonel collectors/runners to write to Lionel asking for them to conform to some industry standard? And if there were 1,000 individual voices would L pay attention? Who can say? But Lionel DOES pay attention to the wants and desires of the O gauge bunch. It did take the likes of Mike Wolf at MTH to wake them up and realize that, hello, the contemporary Lionel fan wanted the detailing and features that Mike's equipment gave them. Now if we could only get Lionel to recognize that a similar thing has happened in S...I wonder if they realize how much money they are leaving on the table by NOT realizing that the Flyer market is not the only phase of S these days, albeit the biggest. Any ideas how we might put pressure on the big Orange and Blue? Roy Inman From: Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:46:47 -0500 To: roy inman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, S-Trains <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} proposal (turnouts-A parallax view...) Roy, so what you would like is a new hi-rail wheel standard, which is a great idea if you can convince the folks at Lionel to change! Without their cooperation all is lost--so vote with your dollars and letters to Lionel asking them why their stuff won't work with trackage we have now. Bob Werre roy inman wrote: > Since I have seen up close and personal only two varieties of S turnouts, > this thought may seem terribly naive: > > Is there a chance we are looking at the problem backwards? > > Why doesn't someone create wheel sets that would be universal instead of > trying to create turnouts to match all? The scale guys would not use them > because they are all set with code 100 so the new wheels/couplers > would not > be an item for them. > > > > [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/
