Not to beat this further into the ground, but I might extend my earlier post by saying all the Atlas cars are designed PRIMARILY with the three-rail crowd in mind, and full-scale modelers have to deal with the compromises and concessions on the underframe that involves. Some of us replace the trucks entirely, which requires new bolsters (and perhaps splicing styrene into the holes in the center sill), others just replace the wheelsets and live with the less-than-perfect Atlas trucks. I've tried both, and how much effort I put in depends on how much time and energy I have to spend on any given car.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > --- In [email protected], "John Degnan" <Scaler164@...> wrote: > > FYI... Atlas O builds ALL of their O offerings in two forms... 2-rail or > > 3-rail... and for a reason... they know what I know. > > > They are the same cars, they just change the wheels and put funky scale > couplers on the 2 rail cars. Atlas wouldn't be building O scale now if they > could sell to the 3 rail crowd. > The toy train guys are also what gave us the gift of SHS and American models > S scale equipment so there's no getting over the fact that they have to be > considered in any new product design if one wants to maximize sales and lower > the prices to mass production prices. > I think the easy solution for those who want a lot of exact scale cars is to > just model in HO gauge where almost everything is here already and waiting to > be built or run. I model in all scales and know that whatever one chooses is > the right scale for them at the time so I don't understand getting all upset > about what S does or doesn't have when there is a ready to go simple option? > ....dave [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/
