Right you are John. What I think we have here , as the Air Force used to say about UFO reports, is "A compression of years."
Nearly as I can tell, the terrible running brass stuff morphed into the good equipment sometime in the 1990's. The replies you are getting, I believe, are comments about both old and new engines, with no indication of when they were issued. The one and only brass locomotive that I have, a Third Rail O scale Northern, came out about 2000. Runs great. I have seen RR models run and a couple of buddies have their models, recent vintage, and the guys are pleased with the performance of the engines. Roy From: John Degnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:34:42 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} BRASS (Monkey?) Operational Issues I don't get it, S scalers... y'all seem to change your mind more often than you do your clothes.... About a year ago I brought up the possibility of having some Baldwin Centipedes done in S scale (brass) by Overland (because I wasn't as familiar with River Raisin then as I am now). All I got in reply was negative comments since it was to be brass... so negative in fact that I shelved the whole idea and never even finished the web page about it : http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/CentipedeProject.htm Now, it seems that everyone is PRO brass in their replies to my comment about the poor (or should I say POORER THAN PLASTIC) operation characteristics of brass models. So... could everyone please make up MY mind for me? Am I to think that the S community DOES or DOES NOT like brass models?!? I'm SO confused... <G> John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:Scaler164%40comcast.net> [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/
