and he notes -
re: "Des Plaines FMC boxcars ... complete with HUGE AF-compatible couplers"
Maybe the Library copy is for AF fans and the subscribers got the
scale version.
But seriously - doesn't the magazine review the products sent to
them? If Ron sent the scale version and they didn't review it there
may be a gripe but he may have sent just the AF compatible version
and that's what they reviewed.
Raleigh in Maine where the Library doesn't subscribe to MR...
At 03:54 PM 9/11/2008, Edward Loizeaux wrote:
>Just returned from the library after my monthly free looksee at the liberal
>mainstream media as it pertains to model railroading. Read MR and the
>Gazette from cover to cover while in a comfy cushion chair in a quiet
>environment paid for with my tax dollars. Not a bad morning in most
>respects except......
>
>MR continues to portray S scale as an AF experience. Example: In the new
>product announcement column, the Des Plaines FMC boxcars are shown in
>glorious color photographs -- complete with HUGE AF-compatible couplers. At
>first I thought this was a paid ad in Classic Toy Trains magazine,
>but...nope....it was MR. Then I read the caption which tells about the AF
>couplers and wheels without any mention whatsoever of the scale wheels
>(included?) and Kadee coupler possibilities for the scale modeler. No
>wonder many of the non-S folks out there in the real world continually think
>of S scale as being little more than AF toy trains. Cannot blame them when
>new product announcements are incomplete at best and flat out wrong at
>worst. I sure hope Ron Sebastion takes them to task for incompletely
>presenting his product -- or is it "half-misrepresenting" his product? I
>also hope that Ron takes off those AF couplers when attending more-or-less
>scale-oriented NMRA conventions in the future. Maybe the AF couplers could
>be used when attending the TCA meet in York, Pennsylvania where Lionel and
>AF reign supreme. Now that John Degnan has claimed the title of COUPLER
>KING, perhaps he should let MR know of the error of their ways as only he
>can do. As usual, I have endless ideas for others to do. Some things never
>change.
>
>So much for the bad news -- now for some good news: The next issue, MR
>November '08, will have a very nice S article with lots of photos of a well
>known scale layout. Plan to get one and look it over (or use the library
>like some cheap guys I know). You will see near-scale couplers, beautiful
>scenery, scratchbuilt structures, interesting operations for a specific
>industry, everything weathered, mention of plastic and brass S models and
>some minor promotion of S scale in the text. A good showing of the scale
>side of our chosen proportions of 1:64. No mention of AF at all.
>
>For those of you who think our own COUPLER KING is pushing the envelope,
>lemmee tell ya that Kadee is doing some envelope expanding also. An
>announcement for a Kadee box car with a working cushion underframe caught my
>eye. Heck, if they can do that in HO, it ought to be a slam dunk for S
>scale. A new challenge for Jim King after he is finished with the rotating
>end caps on roller bearing trucks. Sure glad Jim likes challenges or else
>we'd still be without his neat products.
>
>Time now to return to layout building in the other room. Big open house on
>the 21st to get ready for.
>
>Cheers....Ed L.
>
>
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