Hi Tom;
I'm sure the point of the video is to show the intermodal products which are
available from SHS. At least is a respectable modern train, not stack cars
mixed in with USRA boxcars and trailed by an AM wood caboose! BTW, I'm sure 80%
or more of the HO and N modul;ar layouts on public exibition have as many or
more errors visible. I'm equally sure SHS would love to link to a better
video...
I am definitly NOT trying to be a wise quy with this, but maybe part of being
our own worst enemy is the tendency (and I'm guilty too) to complain about what
someone else has done or what we "need" to have made in S, rather than publicly
showing our own accomplishments in S and (most importantly) how much fun we
have doing it!
AFAIK, complainting about products that aren't available or aren't as good as
they should be is universal in every scale. Nobody needs to change to S scale
to find that.
Pieter E. Roos
Railroad Home Page at
www.geocities.com/pieter_roos/pieter_1.html
--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Tom Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Tom Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: {S-Scale List} Toy Trains
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 2:43 AM
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
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