Here at Union Station Kansas City we have an interactive 1:1 railroad museum and there are several examples of model train gauges, but no S. As the exhibit was being set up I asked why no S. The response was ³Each train is on display because someone donated $10,000 or more AND the train. Apparently no one who made the monetary donation had an ³S² train, if that¹s what you call it. Let¹s see, that size is smaller than HO, isn¹t it?²
I just said ³no² and walked off. Moral of the story: If anyone has a spare ten grand to donate to USKC AND an S scale engine with passenger consist that h/she is also willing to donate, we could have the scale represented at the second largest train station in America! Addendum: We Do have S well represented at the USKC Model Railroad Experience, three loops running , just not in the prototype RR museum. With cheer :) Roy Inman, part time development volunteer for Union Station Kansas City From: Michael & Linda Marmer <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:49:42 -0400 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} New to the group, newer to S gauge It is not uncommon to go into a museum, store, etc. only to see all the different gauges on display, like a group of engines, with nice place cards by each saying what scale or gauge it is and S is nowhere to be seen, like it does not or did not exist. Mike Marmer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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/
