Hi Michael and Esteemed Colleagues,
As a point of fact, I did switch to S-Scale within the last 10 years and I do have and wish to run American Flyer Equipment as well as SHS, American Models and Putt. Sadly, I barely have room for one layout and certainly not for two. Now you know of one. The "Just Swap The Wheels" argument is pretty good for SHS (they come with both) and for freight or passenger cars. It is a mediocre argument for American models since you must buy (fairly expensive) different wheels for both diesels and for steamers. It is wrong for converting American Flyer steamers since no such scale wheels are available. I don't know about the diesels since I don't run Flyer diesels. I like the trains. I like the scenery. I like the operational concepts. I also thoroughly enjoy seeing old American Flyer trains run through my scale scenery. I even suspect that since this topic comes up over and over again, that there are more like me who wish to run both modern scale equipment and older, historic trains. We should put a number with this thread in the same way that the old lumberjacks used to number the jokes to save the time of telling them. We also need numbers for "How Shall We Promote the Hobby", "Why Won't the Rest of the World Support My Favorite Pet Project", "Where are all the Young Model Railroaders" and few others. Bill Reply from Bill Porter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of meldridge2000 Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Tom's proposal (turnouts) I don't see how a "universal turnout" would attract any newcomers to S Scale. From what I can tell, if they already have Flyer equipment, they are already in S Scale. I'd like to know if there is anybody that considers himself or herself new to S Scale that is not a "scaler." I'm curious, is there anybody on this list that has switched to S within the last 20 years that also has Flyer equipment they want to run? Personally, I switched ten years ago from HO when I found out there were scale steam locomotives available. I had no idea what Flyer looked like until I went to an NASG convention. -Michael Eldridge -San Jose [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/
