I have never really understood the complaints about Flyer. I do not collect Flyer and do not purchase it, although I did buy some Flyer for a distant relative some years ago. If Flyonel would crank out that Mike in scale, my appreciation for the company would increase in geometric proportions. That apparently is not likely to occur.
On the other hand, those who purchase S scale items with the big flanges and the huge couplers outnumber us scalers probably 10 to 1. It is their money that funds what we have now. True enough, Jim King has never worried about the hi-rail or tinplate crowd, but he is in the minority. Let's be happy we have a Journal and the NASG to which I need to renew my membership at the moment and get on with life. I am happy to see the hi-railers and am extremely thankful for their support. It does appear that their knowledge of prototypes has risen over the years, something to which the Flyonel Mike attests. Better that than a reissue of a Reading Atlantic with its out-of-scale low drivers and lack of boiler detail. Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Rollain Mercier Sent: Thu 12/25/2008 8:08 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: John Picur Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Name Change, yeah a great idea - phooey! and he notes - Kent Singer tried this back in the 80s and a plethora of 'scalers' have tried it since. My suggestion is go ahead and try it and maybe, just maybe, the few hundred scale enthusiasts will support the organization. But to what end? A four page Dispatch? That's about all your dues (which would have to escalate more than the high point for oil prices) would afford. The original goal of NASG was to unite S Gaugers not divide them. Claud Wade (one of the founders) had Flyer, so did Bernie Thomas, Gene Fletcher, Tom Coughlan and Frank Titman (to name a few). I can list countless modelers who used Flyer as a path to Hi-Rail and then scale (or a mixture of both). Don Riley was a 'wizard' at this). And we all know good modelers who use a mix of both. The organization as it is serves as a stepping stone to bring toy train operators into the realm of scale modeling. Take that away and they will have no goals to achieve. So go ahead - change the name if you want but when you do, please count me out! Raleigh in chilly Maine At 04:25 PM 12/25/2008, [email protected] wrote: >I like BOTH of the ideas below... and yes, I'll contribute (as much as I can). > >"N.A.S.S." was an idea that I proposed quite some time back. > >John Degnan ><mailto:Scaler164%40comcast.net>[email protected] > >-------------- Original message -------------- >From: "John Picur" <<mailto:jppicur%40telus.net>[email protected]> > > > I suggest the name be S Super Scale Splinter Society. Our logo > can be a large > > S-shaped snake with the slogan "Don't tread on my scale." > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > Bill Fraley wrote > > > > So who is willing to go for a name change? Who is willing to quit > the great > > [$20.00 a year] NASG, and start up a new organization named the > "NASS" National > > Association S Scalers ? > > > > . > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [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/
