HI Dave. I considered that. The problem is that it's not just the flange. If you look at the NMRA standards for Hi-Rail you will notice that the wheels are much wider and the inside flange to flange dimension is tighter. So just grinding down the flanges won't fix the problem. I am just getting started so I don't have hundreds of cars to deal with. I have been careful to purchase only SHS and AM Models products that can go either way so that is a non-issue for me. Sound is a subjective thing... Tsunami is a nice system and I will have several of them installed very soon. To my ear RailSounds is better quality. My Flyonel Mikado has a fantastic whistle on it. My 4 yr old asks me if he can "not run it, but just play the whistle" all the time. It sounds that real. I'm not trying to win any converts or anything. I know this is the scale group. But, I think there may be more people out there than just me that are interested in the middle ground between scale and Hi-rail though. I have the luxury of designing my layout to accommodate both since I am at that point in my S Gauge journey... I took Doug's advice and put a call into Custom Trax to see if they would be willing to build the turnouts I want. If not, no biggie. I will hand-lay my own. Even that is at least 6-8 months away. I have a basement to finish before the layout construction can begin.
Regards, Jonathan Blogs: http://RailfanX.blogspot.com and http://cloudvirt.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonnyspeed Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhatfield --- In [email protected], Jonathan Hatfield <jonathan@...> wrote: > > Hi Chris. The answer is very simple... Lionel... They have made several scale > steam engines lately and they have a new scale Challenger coming. Also, > RailSounds has superior sound quality to any DCC Sound system on the market. Why not just grind the lionel flanges down to scale size? That seems a lot easier than messing with problematic switches and putting toy wheels on a hundred scale cars? I've had railsounds and DCC and I don't think railsounds is any better than tsunami, it just sounds louder cause the common O scale locos have larger speakers. In think DCC with tsunami is more compatible with other scale manufacturers products than running TMCC. TMCC/railsounds parts are too big for many smaller locos while DCC and Tsunami are pretty compact.....DaveBranum [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/
