John, I am a little confused by your comment ³I...don¹t think I have ever seen a model manufactured specifically for what we call hi-rail that had scale details.² I presume you are talking about just AF or Flyonel? I see it as three, not two divisions: Scale, hi-rail and Flyer, or Flyonel. I am thinking of the AM Northern, which was available (I believe) as scale or hi-rail, and same for SHS engines. Seems to me that in the last ten years or so there has been a blurring of the hi-rail and scale, or maybe merging is a better term. Oh, and Lionel has been offered a couple of relatively well-detailed articulated engines, the BB last year and the Challenger yet to come. While it would take a bit of work to get them to ³performance level², it looks to me as if they could be a good starting point for a more accurate scale model. Roy
on 4/13/11 5:28 PM, John Degnan at [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > I, for one, don't think I have EVER seen a model that was manufacturer > specifically for what we call "hi-rail" track that had scale details. > > As for what a SAL car is... SAL stands for Seaboard Air Line... as in the SAL > Railway/Railroad... an early predecessor of what is now CSX. See below : > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/salhistory.htm > > The tern "Air Line" was commonly used in the late 1800s and early 1900s to > represent the "fastest route" between two destinations. Ever heard the term > "making a bee line?" Same concept. The term "AIR" was used since traveling > in a perfectly straight line to another place was only possible by being in > the air, thereby being the fastest route. See below : > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SAL1906FromNYToFLAAd.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SAL1909PalmReaderAd.jpg > > John Degnan > > > > [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/
