Hi Bob, I would buy one, possibly two. Would the Hodges truck come with a spoked wheel set?
Thanks, John Bell ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert McCarthy To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:39 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} ATTENTION Potential Production of new S locomotive parts Howdy Everybody! We here at TOMALCO S SCALE PARTS would like input from this group about the desire for a Hodges Trailing Truck in S. We have been approached by several people wanting this truck recently. Discussions have been started with plans to produce the truck. Before we invest the development funds, we feel it makes sense to find out what support and willingness to buy the resulting part. Your votes will determine the viability of this product. Bob McCarthy TOMALCO S SCALE PARTS --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Edward Loizeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Edward Loizeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: {S-Scale List} ATTENTION EARTHLINGS........!! To: "List, S scale" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 12:23 PM Earthlings.. ... Due to our mutual language differences and the lack of competent interpreters available to support us, I feel obligated to clarify my earlier comment about new products. Bear with me while I try once again. To start with, here is what I actually said: "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." Please note that I did not say there were no new products in the past eighteen months. I did not even say there were no new MAJOR products. What I was trying to say, using my Marsese (official Mars language) was that there were "hardly any new MAJOR products" released in the past eighteen months. My intent, obviously not clear, was to say there have been darn few new MAJOR products. I will leave it up to the interpreters, when their saucers land nearby, to decide if "darn few" is roughly equivalent to "hardly any". Yes, Ron S. has done a couple of modern box cars. And Bill has done some freight cars and a motorized lobster speeder. As he has stated, some folks get excited over lobster speeders. Fine for them. Jim King has already received his publicity and so I will not repeat it here. Yep, I would agree that here are several new freight cars released within the past 18 months. I erred in not mentioning them more explicitly -- although some of them do not run in Mars, but that should not be an excuse. So, yes, there has been a slow steady trickle of new freight cars in S and I should have not forgotten about them so easily. Sorry about that. In my view, new paint schemes on existing castings do not qualify as MAJOR new products. That's just the way it is on Mars. Don't blame me. Some Earthlings apparently think differently and that is fine also. There is no accounting for the differences between various inter-planetary cultures. The UP (United Planets) gave up a long time ago trying to forge standardized thinking about these things. So........unless I am wrong, the only new loco suitable for use on a Class I RR in the past 18 months is the Shark from River Raisin Models which arrived in April 2007 (15 months ago, barely made it). I think that qualifies as "hardly any" MAJOR new locos in the past 18 months. With due recognition to Bill Wade's "creature" (the Mars name for "critters") which is motorized, but not MAJOR. Also with due recognition to the impending arrival of RRM's SP steamers. But that is looking to the future and my comment was looking toward the past. I would also opine that a new grocery store, while very nice, is not a MAJOR structure. In Mars, the word MAJOR means big and very important. Like a sawmill complex, or coal mine complex, major big city passenger terminal, 8-stall roundhouse, monster factory or warehouse, etc. As I recall, Bill Wade (a very busy Earthling, I might add) has been busy with some new large structures for a sawmill complex. Good for Bill (on Mars he would be William), but what other MAJOR structures have become available in the past 18 months? Not many......from what I can see from way up here on the Red Planet. I suppose the point of this dissertation is that S scale new product production, over the years, has had slow times and busy times. Things perk along at a good clip and then there are some dry spells. I think we have just come through a "slow time" with respect to MAJOR new products. That is not necessarily bad or good -- it is just what it is. Perhaps busy times are just around the corner ahead of us. And I would hastily add that new MINOR products are being cranked out like never before. All those smaller structures (like grocery stores), decals, new paint jobs, etc., etc. are coming along just fine. My comments were only with regard to MAJOR new products. Read my lips! Yes, Martians do have lips, but you would not believe where they are located. Perfectly clear now? One other conclusion that could be reached is that Ed L. has too much time on his hands. I would like to point out that on Mars, there are 565 days in a year and that provides me with ample time to write lengthy messages like this one. Just think what I could do if'n I moved to Pluto? Over 900 days per year (or something like that). Take care Earthlings. Have fun in Lowell. Missed the saucer this year, but there is always the future. Right? The future never ends. Think about it. Cheers...Ed L. [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! 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