Hi Chris. The answer is very simple... Lionel... They have made several scale steam engines lately and they have a new scale Challenger coming. They also have a new U33c due very soon. The rumors that I hear is that they will be making even more new S scale product down the road. Their prices are MUCH lower than brass. I don't want to spend $3000 for a brass Challenger, but $850 is doable. Also, RailSounds has superior sound quality to any DCC Sound system on the market. Lionel knows how to do sound and that is HUGELY important to me. Coming from O gauge 3 rail I miss RailSounds. Another thing is that the brass steamers do not even have a smoke unit... That is another big problem for me. Steamers need smoke. So I would totally disagree with your statement that "everything of quality in S is available with scale wheels". Lionel is including scale wheels on their U33 so perhaps in the future they will do more of that, but they will never abandon the larger flange wheels. So if I want to run any of their products I need to have track that will accommodate. Lionel is a major player in the model train market and if they want to they can produce much more new product than any of the other S gauge companies for the foreseeable future, and as I mentioned before they can do it at a lower cost with the best sound system on the market for any scale. Hope that clears it up for you. Since you are also new to S, I recommend that you give them a look and listen before you dismiss them. Bottom line is that while I love scale but, I WANT to run these new Lionel models so I need to plan for that as a common denominator.
Regards, Jonathan Blog: http://RailfanX.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonnyspeed Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhatfield From: Christopher Borgmeyer Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Being all things to all wheel profiles. Jonathan, As someone new to S, I don't understand why you would even consider building trackwork to accommodate a wheel profile that is some 50 years out of date? Essentially everything of quality in S is available with scale wheels. Why not just build to scale and cover yourself for today and for tomorrows models? Chris Borgmeyer [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/
