Many thanks for the public vote of encouragement, Bill. "Publicly posting" positive replies like this would do a world of good for S. Most (not all) on-list posts I read are generally negative, whereas I get far more "private" e-mails that are positive. Maybe if all these positive replies got posted publicly, the tide would begin to turn much faster toward progressiveness.
John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "william cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:10 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: SCALE COUPLERS : HO Guys Consensus one of the things that attracted me to S scale was that there was a variety of equipment available for the time period that I'd be modelling (mid 1960's)....the availability of Kadee couplers (at the time, the Sergent coupler was unavailable, bummer), was a key for performance, also Shinohara flex track and turnouts, and good running locomotives right out of the box....I've settled on models being about 95% correct (what ever that really means?) in order to get good running characteristics, as I'm more interested in noperations and not running round and round and round in circles (with the possible exception of under the Christmas tree!). and doing this on a budget, so there is no car or locomotive that I absolutely must have, but purchases based on cheap price and availability,,,Kadee is available, and that does the trick for me....have seen my pop do some of the other couplers in HO and he returns to Kadee time and time again....no guys in my rr club use Sergent (surprisingly!).... however a couple of us LO&S narrow gauge guys wer going to do some modelling in On3 and considered the Sergent S coupler for some of that equipment, the other choice was link and pin....we may just go to Fn3 (1:20.3) and do mostly link and pin as coupler choice in "large scale" are brutal to get anything that looks like a real 3/4 MCB coupler! It's interesting to see that even though there are proven couplers in S that the boundaries are being pushed for a better model of a prototype coupler...the On3 guys have gone through some of this also.....best of luck, I'll be watching..... Bill ------------------------------------ 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/
