Ed, While I'm kind of busy with the my action item list for the upcoming convention, I could not believe it when I read this from you and thought it was worth a quick reply! I'm not sure what to think -- perhaps:
a) time has stopped for you in the NYC fog, or b) you just wrote this to make us all think about how grateful we should be for all the new products, or c) you're trying to tweak the mfgs to produce even more, or d) all the new products are not NYC, so they don't count, or e) you're just trying to stimulate Internet conversation, or f) all of the above and more! :-) I guess all the new releases from S Helper Service, Des Plaines Hobbies/S Scale America, American Models, River Raisin Models, B.T.S., Banta, Ragg's to Riches, Pine Canyon Scale Models, Smoky Mountain Model Works, Bar Mills Scale Models, Turner Model Works, Grand River Models, BranchLine Trains, Blair Line, GCLaser Innovations, Palace Car Co., Kaw Valley Designs, Wild West Models, Wiseman Model Services, Clever Models, Scenery Unlimited, Smart Signals, NJI, along with special run roadnames from numerous clubs & companies like Port Lines Hobbies & Hoquat Hobbies, and many others must not count in your view...not to mention all the products that support multiple scales (including S) like Evan Designs, all the DCC products, etc. While I certainly don't have a count, there are no doubt several hundred new products in S over the last two years -- not even counting the multi-scale products! Whether it's new paint schemes and/or road numbers on existing items, or new motive power (Sharks, SW8s, NW2s, new steam anyone?) and new rolling stock, or new structures, or new details, or new containers, or new parts (e.g., trucks, etc.) or new ...there is sure a lot of them -- more than my wallet can keep with for sure... Of course I don't have those NYC colored glasses on... :-) Michael At 7/22/2008 12:53 PM, ed_loizeaux wrote: >Gents....Perhaps I am from a different planet, but I have not noticed >hardly any new MAJOR products becoming available in the past eighteen >months or so. In the loco department, River Raisin Models' SP steam >program is wonderful, but not here yet. Same with the 0-6-0. Not to >mention Budd cars. Lotsa announcements, but no hardware at this >time -- although RRM's SP stuff is enroute from Korea. Good old Jim >King has released some new resin freight car kits. But what other >new (not mere repaints) freight cars have recently become available? >No new passenger cars at all. Seems to me that new S products are, >for the most part, MINOR things like details, smaller structures, >decals, etc. BTS, being an exception to my general observation, has >announced some larger S structures, but that is about all in the >structure department. Am I missing anything truly significant here >that has become available (read: in stock) during the past two >years? Fingers are crossed....Ed L. > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Greene Dunstable, MA, USA Member: NMRA(Life), NASG, Bristol S Gaugers, The 470 Railroad Club National Assoc. of S Gaugers http://www.nasg.org DCC Corner http://www.dccinfo.com Maine Railroads http://www.mainerailroads.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ 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/
