Welcome Peter, As a senior member (no privileges, just old) of the Houston S Gaugers, you are certainly welcome to join our little informal group. If you saw any S scale running at any local train shows it was probably our modules. We meet on a irregular basis in member's homes and we setup for various train shows. A few have layouts and the rest hope to.
Most of the group model the local roads (ATSF, SP/TNO, MP, RI, CB&Q), although a few brave souls dare to model far away locations So even if your a friend of Bill Lane we can overlook that.! LOL Actually you will find a GG-1 running on our modules. When it comes to rail sizes, certainly the code 70 & 83 from Tomalco is a great way to go. It was very common in years past, as in all scales, to use larger sizes so you will find lots of 126 & 100 rail on layouts that are running. My personal road uses 126, 100, plus some recently added 83 and 70! Whether SHS will ever rerun some schemes, I'm sure would depend on the perceived demand. Meanwhile ebay and perhaps some arm twisting might work. Many engines sold a few years ago have never been out of their boxes so they do pop up. Our modules and 2 of our local layouts are DCC (Digitrax) friendly. Bob Werre BobWphoto.com Peter Vanvliet wrote: > I have been lurking in this group for a couple of weeks now, and I > would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I have been > modeling in N scale since the mid 1970's (early teens). I took a > break during High School and college, but came back full-force in > 1999. For the last couple of months I have been debating about > switching to a larger scale, because N scale is getting harder to see > and operate. HO scale never really "felt right" to me, but I had been > attracted to S scale in local shows and home layouts here in Houston. > I finally made the decision last weekend to switch from N to S. > > > > My first question is this. I wish to continue to model the PRR in > 1954. Bill Lane recommended that I look at S Helper Service for my > first switcher engine. Once some of my N scale collection has been > sold, I would like to purchase a PRR SW-9, but the SHS web site lists > the engines as sold out > (http://www.showcaseline.com/Archived_product_pages/SW9_ar.html > <http://www.showcaseline.com/Archived_product_pages/SW9_ar.html>). > What I don't know is, does SHS re-run some of the sold out engines > from time-to-time, or was that a one-time deal? Should I hold my > breath, or plan on looking for another engine? For the time-being I > plan on only buying one small switcher because I don't have much space. > > > > My second question is related to rail height. In N scale I used code > 40 rail because even code 55 felt too tall to me. I realize the PRR > used heavy rail on the mainlines, but in this case I am more > concerned about how the model looks. I thought code 40 looked better > than 55 and especially code 70. Given my personal preference, should > I be looking at code 100 or code 83 rail for my S scale switching > layout I plan on building next? > > If you are interested in seeing what I have done in N scale, click on > the second link below in my e-mail signature. > > Thanks for any and all feedback, > Peter. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Vanvliet ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:pvanvliet%40comcast.net>) > http://www.fourthray.com/ <http://www.fourthray.com/> > http://www.fourthray.com/Peter/ <http://www.fourthray.com/Peter/> > Houston, Texas > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > [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/
