I respectfully, completely disagree. Just because someone calls something by a name doesn't make it whatever it was called. G scalers call their TOY trains "G scale," but there is LITTLE to NOTHING scale about most of the offerings in that "scale(?)."
And go look at the die-cast automobile offerings from Johnny Lightning and other such manufacturers which IDENTIFY themselves (on the package) as 1/64, and tell me again if their claim to being 1/64 "SCALE" actually makes them 1/64 scale. And besides... when AF/Gilbert was in business, there really wasn't anything that was truly "SCALE" in the first place... maybe of the general size, but nothing exact. I guess this is where JL and other die-cast manufacturers got their gall to label their 1/70 "scale" (and smaller and larger) offerings as being 1/64 "scale." I mean no disrespect by this, Bob... but, "Right on" for the painful truth. :) John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] John's World on the Web www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Werre To: [email protected] Sent: February 20, 2008 10:52 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} S Scale? > Right on Ted! >> T Larson wrote: >> >> Some list members seem to think that AF is not S scale, or that Hi-Rail >> is not S Scale. Look at The Dispatch, volume XXXI, Number 6, back cover >> (you ARE an NASG member, right?). AM advertises that they make "S scale >> freight cars", and "S scale steam engines", and they show photos of >> items that have AF compatible (hi-rail) wheels and couplers. The SIZE >> of the engines and freight cars is S scale (1/64th scale, 3/16" per foot >> scale), regardless of which style couplers and flanges they have. >> >> Also look inside the back cover. The cover of the AF instruction book >> refers to "3/16" scale trains". It looks like we have it straight from >> AC Gilbert, AF considered their trains to be S scale. The use of SCALE >> here appears to reference the SIZE of the trains, not the level of >> accuracy of the details on the train or the layout. >> > Ted Larson [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/
