While I hesitate to the discussion, I think there are a few points that have
been missed about the 2 articles included in this S Scale Primer.
But first I think the idea a good one and it does have several S advertisers
displayed on its pages. The articles do provide a nice overview of S -
although the second one intersperses the Toy Train, Hi Rail, and S scale in
ways that are not always very clear.
The deficiencies are four.
1. There is no resource list at the end, of manufacturers and web sites.
2. S Trax is presented as suitable for a scale layout. It is not. While the
24" radius curves and straights work fine with scale wheels, the 19" radius
curves are too sharp. Only the #3 turnouts are available and these are curved
19" radius turnouts which are too sharp for a scale layout. The #5's have been
TBA forever (this is a shame because an S Trax layout with closed frog #5's and
24" curves would probably be able to mix AF and scale wheels).
3. No mention is made of Shinohara or Tomalco track which are suitable for a
scale layout. Be nice to mention FastTracks also.
4. By far the worst deficiency are the statements that S is only a third
larger than HO and an S layout can be built in an area slightly larger than an
HO layout. If these were true, there would be no point in moving from HO to S.
Models are 3 dimensional objects and the models are 2.51 times the size of
HO. A layout's size is 2 dimensional, so a layout in S is 1.85 times the size
of the same layout in HO. The joy of S scale is that you get models 2 and half
times the size of HO on a layout slightly less than twice the size of HO. That
is the reason I switched to S from HO.
Paul Tenney
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