Folks, I'm a lot younger than Ed, but my S habit goes back a little
further. In high school I started to save my mowing money ($1 per week)
with the idea of the Enhorning F or the Dockside. The Dockside was $25
and the F unit was $26. I went the cheap route and got the Dockside.
Of course I hadn't figured in the cost of a bottle of Floquil engine
black @.60! That engine, now with scale drivers, extra detail, and DCC
still runs the layout fairly well, although it runs a lot better
backward than forward. Never have figured that one out!
Actually that is a great 'test bed' engine for dead spots on turnouts.
If that little guy makes it through a turnout a bigger engine will do
just fine.
Complaining about something is mostly likely due to our increasing
age/desire to accomplish something before the fire goes out!
Bob Werre
ed_loizeaux wrote:
> > since there
> > was so little else available at the time
> > Bob Nicholson
>
> I remember well what was available in S scale at the moment I made the
> big decision. There was the REX 2-6-0, the REX Dockside, Enhorning F-
> units (promised), the REX 0-6-0 (promised), and a NYC Hudson AF
> conversion kit from S SCALE LOCO & SUPPLY. There may have been others,
> but if so they have been forgotten. So I jumped in with a grand total
> of five or six locos on the market (in 1968 or 1969) and having no
> interest at all in two of them. But look at what we have now. And
> folks are still complaining. Cheers...Ed L.
>
>
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