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From: petemster
Sent: February 14, 2008 7:55 PM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Magazines and Models> I'm what you might call an "average" modeler - but I have a few thousand > dollars waiting to be spent on railroad models, just as soon as the right > prototypes see the light of day. ( That is, if it happens in this life.) RE : Unfortunately... don't count on it. Steam : 4-6-0, light 4-6-2, 2-8-2 etc. ... Diesel : GP-20, GP-38, SD-40, SD-40-2, Dash-8, or ES44DC ! RE : It seems that the key here... and I have been giving this a LOT of thought... would be offering models that both the current S scale enthusiasts like and want as well as those that modelers in other scales actually want and can justify using. Take the early-to-mid GeePs, for instance... a great many of them are still in use today, so they could be justifiably used by both early transition-era modelers as well as those of the modern era. GeePs, it seems, are VERY popular locos with most modelers in most scales, yet as far as I know, S scale has only one GeeP of any kind availible (the AM GP-7/9/18/or whatever it is suppsed to be), yet it is of only modest fidelity to the prototype. So, it seems to me that if such models were offered, folks in other scales WOULD sit up and take serious notice. Seriously, folks... how many of us out there do NOT want or could NOT use a GP-7, GP-9, GP-18... or even a GP-30... or just about any of the early GeePs listed on the page below!? : http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EMD-GP-SERIES-DATA.htm I know it sounds like a broken record, but I've been saying it for years (because I've heard it said nearly verbatim by modelers in other scales)... modelers will NOT come into a scale where they cannot get what they want! John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] John's World on the Web www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm [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/
