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From: Richard Karnes
. . . . . . . .I know this is only a hobby. . . . . . . .
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It's not just a hobby, it's many hobbies. And the primary hobby the S
Gaugian is oriented to is American Flyer preservation. The "prototype" of
that hobby is not real trains, it's the A C Gilbert American Flyer toy train
system.
Within that hobby there are many opinions as to what's desirable and what's
incongruous, just as in our model railroading one man worries about scale
accuracy of individual items while another just wants a railroad the
captures the look and feel of a certain real railroad.
In American Flyer preservation one man will mix in realistic items Mr
Gilbert wouldn't recognize while another man restricts himself strictly to
Gilbert products. But the American Flyer people, in all their variations,
dominate the S Gaugian buying public. And there's not much we can do about
that. As you well know, S Scale-oriented publications don't last.
But I feel your pain. Two pictures come to my mind at this moment that I
saw in the S Gaugian, both involving bridges, both just plain wrong. Anyone
with an I Q above room temperature could see they were wrong. And it's
embarrassing when real modellers in other scales see such things.
When I talk at train shows to potential S scale modellers who want to know
where to learn more, it can be embarrassing to show them the S Gaugian, but
I tell them it's good for the advertisements and then also try to also foist
off on them a copy of the Modelling Guide. The latter I usually end up
giving away, but that's another story.
Tom Hawley (S Gaugian dealer)
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