Bob, I have purchased several of the Sunset O scale engines and they run very well. I am assuming the S loco's will be built by the same blder. in Korea. They are not up to RR's standards but again the price is less than half of RR's but I get 4. times the Loco. The detail doesn't Quite match RR's but neither is the Price. I also purchased a Key allegheny for $1800 and it goes beyond RR's. It has parts that can't be seen on RR's.. I think if the SP engines are to be built the S population is going to have to step up to the plate and order then buy. Thanks bert Cutler
To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:08:32 -0500 Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Sunset's Southern Pacific P-8 and P-10 I think many are leary of purchasing Sunset products. Their history of producing good running models is pretty dismal. They made four basic engines--the Geeps with so-so quality and only average detail; the Big Boy nice detail, a few bad solder joints but many barely run; the Challenger is only marginally better than the BB; and that leaves the narrow gauge K engine. I've heard good things about them. Unfortunately I think Sunset is going to have to build one and demo it around. When Charlie Sandersfielt introduced his MP 2-8-0 he demo'd it at the last Sacramento convention. He was a new company and needed to prove himself. In the case of Sunset, I think they have to crawl out of a hole! Now, I do believe that Southwind engines were based on the Sunset 'basic' engines. Those two seem to be good runners and solidly constructed in my case. But I don't know how much involvement Sunset had other than perhaps the drawings and design. Bob Werre On 6/16/11 3:49 PM, Howard Sheffield wrote: > The last time I spoke with Sunset which was after their ad came out, I was > told the same thing about not enough orders to date. I was also to be a > dealer for his engines and tried to solicit them to the local guys in scale > and hi rail both. I also discussed the fact that the engines needed more > publicizing and was told that more ads would come out. I haven't seen any > more ads since the first one. > > Howard Sheffield > > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, ackerg wrote: > >> Yes the ad said due late 2010. But not enough resevations were placed to >> give the go ahead in Korea. Sunset has received a 1/3 of the required >> resevations. Sunset isn't asking for a deposit just that if you order an >> engine you pick it up. >> Sunset is interested in doing more "S" scale locomotives if the scalers >> support the projects. >> I have an e-mail in to Sunset asking if they'll do a set of passenger cars. >> Sunset would need to see the suipport for the engine first. The P-8's and >> P-10's pulled the "Overnight" boxcars from LA to SF and these cars are or >> were avialable from AM and PRS. >> >> > [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/
