> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Loizeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 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.
RE : Dang it, man... there's a very old echo floating around in here... since I
said these very same things over a year ago... maybe two years ago when I was
trying to convince Don @ SHS to start showing his models with the scale wheels
and scale couplers instead of those AF excuses for the same. All my efforts
didn't pay off for me, Ed... good luck with yours! But you're dead-right... as
long as S keeps advertising toys... that's what it will always be.
> 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.
RE : Now Ed... are you trying to start something again? I don't claim to be
king... I just want to see S scale become king! What is so wrong with that?!?
> For those of you who think our own COUPLER KING is pushing the envelope...
RE : You know... the crazy thing is that I didn't even start the "coupler"
debate, nor did I write the original post. How in the world did I end up to
blame for it all? LOL!!!
John Degnan
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