Hi Bob, Count me in.
Bob F. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:26 PM, John Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] <S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > 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]<Loizeaux%40SBCGlobal.net>> > wrote: > > From: Edward Loizeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Loizeaux%40SBCGlobal.net>> > Subject: {S-Scale List} ATTENTION EARTHLINGS........!! > To: "List, S scale" <[email protected] <S-scale%40yahoogroups.com>> > 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] > > > [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/
