I just looked at S-Helper Service's home page and noted under the third picture
down an invitation to click on the picture and see a video of an intermodal
train on a portable layout, presumable out in public where serious adult model
railroaders can see it.
What is the purpose of that train and that video??? The only thing I can
figure out is "to make sure the public never forgets that S gauge is for the
not-too-bright"?
It's hard to see things clearly, the camera is too close to the track and the
picture is all out of focus. But there appear to be some of those die-cast
Tonkin 40 foot containers in several wells in the bottom position. Fair
enough, but note no one has had the initiative to put decals on any of them,
not even some under-sized decals.
Two cars have 20 foot bulktainers stacked two high. That just isn't done in
real raillroading.
Most egregious though is the car that has two bulktainers, one above the other,
and two other things, one above the other, that are hard to identify, but may
be HO 40 foot containers or semi-trailer bodies.
Mr Degnan the other day was saying that our AF association drags down our
public perception. Likewise, things like the train in the above video
seriously damage our chances of being taken serious by knowledgeable model
railroaders of other scales.
We all say we want greater acceptance of S, but I think we're our own worst
enemy. We're so quick to argue about coupler minutia and so slow to learn
anything about real trains.
I could go on, but maybe I should stop before I say something controversial.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
[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/
