Thank you Dick; Very well said.
Pieter E. Roos --- On Sun, 2/13/11, Richard Karnes <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Richard Karnes <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} Promotion of S > To: "S-Scale" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 6:24 PM > All -- > > Apparently I need to make myself perfectly clear. My > arguments for separating > AF and hirail out of S scale promotion are based entirely > on the prospective > audience -- converts from HO and N scale. Those > potential converts are not > interested in AF and hirail. They are used to being > able to purchase any > manufacturer's rolling stock with assurance that it will > operate with any other > manufacturer's rolling stock. This is because all the > equipment they hve owned > conforms to NMRA wheel and track standards. Converts > to S are entitled to the > same interoperability. The problem arises when they > don't know that S has > incompatible scale and hirail standards, and they don't > stop long enough to > figure it out. To me, this is the sole reason for the > popularity of On3, a > scale/gauge combination that has seen very little prototype > use in the USA-- > ever. The N and HO person who wants/needs to scale > upward wants to settle on a > scale/gauge whose standards are unambiguous. > > Those who attribute my motives to anything else are > mistaken. While I believe > that toy train collecting and model railroading are two > dfferent hobbies, I also > recognize that there is a continuum between these two > poles. In that respect, I > salute all of you. As Jace has said, aren't we all > just playing with trains? > > There is a place to promote AF and hirail, and that is in > venues like Classic > Toy Trains and TTOS meets. Scale promotion in such > venues is a waste of > resources. The converse argument plays in venues like > the general-circulation > model railroad magazines and shows that are dominated by > NMRA-standard-compatible modelers and products. It's > just good marketing sense. > > Dick Karnes > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
