From: Alan Lambert Paul, I hate to be a pain, but look again. When you get to the 1/64 S Scale Primer page or first page, turn the page. Headline reads Have you seen S Scale Today. What do you see . An ad for TOMALKO TRACKI, then you see one for Custom Trax.
--- 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, 7:33 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 [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/
