It is interesting that Pine Canyon also left HO to concentrate of S scale also. I understand that they actually built up their kits per order in the smaller scale.
One thing I would like to mention, I covered several layouts for MR prior to the St. Paul NMRA+NASG convention. I had scouted several of the layouts to get the publisher's approval, but they did assign me one that I wasn't familiar with. I don't recall his name or his layout at this time, but he lived in the NE area beyond St. Paul itself and modeled the CNW. He had a very interesting system of updating his layout every year by a 10 year span. For instance when he modeled 1950 he might have had some steam, some diesel, and all the proper aged rolling stock, but his buildings also fit the era. Two years later (1970 in model years!) he of course, was now running second gen diesels, but he had also boarded up the passenger station, changed the names and updated the signeage on his buildings (maybe Humble Oil to Exxon). He also changed out earlier buildings for more modern ones of the same size. Very interesting concept. He was an operations guy, so when he did have repeat operating guests over, every year they had a fresh layout to run. By the very nature of his concept, he bought more structures than most. And as Jim says, we have trouble filling out one layout. Bob Werre BobWphoto.com raisinone wrote: > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, > "jamiebothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > Why is it that a manufacturer of rolling stock can be so happy > with the S scale market, but a manufacturer of structure kits can't > sell enough? I think there are several factors at work here. > > <snip> > > Jamie Bothwell > > Jamie: > You hit on a couple, it is easy to fit just about any freight car > into a scene, but structures tend to be more specialized. There is > the great tendency to buy more and more locomotives and freight cars, > far more than we can ever use; yet not buy structures. We only buy > them when we 'need' them. I've salted away only a few structures, > mainly Heljan breweries and Korber power plants. OTOH, I have enough > rolling stock to cover a few scale acres! > > > > Jim K. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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/
