Hi Paul; May I suggest sending the main part of your email to the editors of RMC?
I may be ignored, or it might appear as a "letter to the editor", and possibly be read by someone interested in converting as well. I think your points are well made, concise and positive overall. Pieter E. Roos --- On Thu, 4/21/11, paul.tenney <[email protected]> wrote: > From: paul.tenney <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: RMC Feature > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 8:33 PM > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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/
