Your discussion about GN steam brings up a vivid memory. Years ago, say in the Seventies, I walked into a hobby shop in St. Paul. I was still clinging to my Lionel but was unsatisfied with its truncated proportions and its fetish for scrawling "Lionel Lines" on so many pieces of equipment. Anyway, the hobby shop was somewhere on Lexington Avenue but was not the one that's there now. The proprietor had a beautiful brass model in O gauge of Great Northern O-8 Mikado.
I had seen those things storming hell bent for election through Wayzata eastbound into Minneapolis, a beautiful sight. I was visiting a friend whose mother was the head nurse at the small Wyzata Hospital. I recall that the windows of the old hospital that faced Highway 12 and the GN tracks absolutely rattled. I never saw any other GN steamer live but those O-8s hauling the freight through Wayzata, Minnesota. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Jonathan Hatfield [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: "S" scale SP Pacifics from Sunset I understand your point of view Butch. I personally think that competition is good for business. I don't think we are in danger of having too many vendors at this point. I am not in the business so I can't comment on the number of manufactures we can support. From my standpoint, the more players in the game the more likely I will be to see GN steam actually produced. I already asked Dan about it, but there just isn't a big enough market for GN steam. I suppose I'm going to just have to buy whatever steam looks good to me and repaint or re-letter it into my fantasy Ohio Northern scheme. So far the lack of even the possibility of steam being produced in my railroad is the biggest negative (not that big a deal in the grand scheme) I have experienced in S. Regards, Jonathan From: up148 Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 7:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: "S" scale SP Pacifics from Sunset Jonathan, I don't think you ruffled any feathers, certainly not mine. And I think your opinions are important to express as that is how we all learn on this forum. Never hold back on stating your feelings and opinions, as no one else does. <VBG> I've owned many Sunset O scale steam locos in the past and have an E7 ABB on ordered with them now that will need to be sold. Another important reason I hope they are well received. <VBG> I'm just not sure there is room for two brass importers in S these days. I've had very good luck with my RRM models over the years and know Dan is very quality minded, so I don't want to see anything jeopardize his business. I know that thinking may not be in vogue, but that's how I feel about it. Butch [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ 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/
