Ed: You've described the magic of S scale to a "T". I left HO scale of my own volition because I liked the size of S and the challenge of not modelling everything with my wallet. I'm going to print your letter and post it near my layout.
Jim ________________________________ From: Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 3:52:01 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: RTR motorized turnouts Model railroading is not a plug and play hobby. Even taking the easiest scale and the simplest approach there are still more than enough "problems" to turn off someone who doesn't want to think for himself. Lets face it, it's no good trying to make it so easy that a lazy person with no desire to learn or develope skills can get along just fine. It's the challenge that draws us ever deeper into this expensive, time consuming, space eating, and often frustrating hobby. We're a particular type of people to be drawn to this. It's not for everyone. That's one reason that I can't get excited about where the next generation of model railroaders will come from. There will always be folks like us who are driven to choose the "road less travelled". We don't have to be enticed to follow it, we search it out. I had all the things you folks have been saying are necessary to draw scalers to S. I left all those things behind to pursue something different. S has everything I want. One of those things is not having everything I want :o) It keeps me young and hungry, always pressing forward to the next goal. I don't know about you, but if people didn't look at me funny when I tell them I'm a model railroader, I'd find something to do that did. Now I've discovered the ultimate...model railroaders look at me funny when I tell them I'm in S! Model railroading is a journey, not a destination. Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine --- On Mon, 2/14/11, Richard Karnes <[email protected]> wrote: From: Richard Karnes <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: RTR motorized turnouts To: [email protected] Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 8:59 PM Posted by: "shabbona_rr" [email protected] shabbona_rr Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:43 am (PST) "How hard is it to attach a throw mechanism to a switch? Back in the "day", we didn't grouse about such trivial nonsense. We just went and did what needed to be done with what we had to do it with. Note Ed L's and Dick Karnes' professional quality work with AF conversions (I know I'm missing others, but not intentionally)." In a somewhat convoluted way, "stringbob" makes the point very well. We are no longer "back in the day," and whether he or Ed or yours truly can build our own turnouts and install switch machines ourselves is beside the point. This is the age of "plug 'n' play." New S people are not going to come from -- us! They are going to come from "them!" Dick Karnes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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: [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/
