I would suspect that in different areas of the country you might have
different opinions of where we stand with the rest of the hobby.
Another local S guy, Bill Green and I were at the National Train Show
when it was in Vancouver Oregon back a few years ago. The NASG had a
very nice presence there with a couple of display cases featuring brass
and other models. Two modelers, obviously from another scale, were
standing next to Bill and myself. One wanted to visit the S booths,
while the other pulled him back stating that S was just a "bunch of AF"
so they walked away! We wanted to hit them with a rolled up newspaper,
but there is only so much you can do with a "one off" effort like a
trade show.
Locally the real AF and Lionel collector crowd doesn't mingle too much,
despite the fact that we have several of our club members with large
flange stuff at home. The 3 rail guys have a vacant mall storefront and
they have their own area meets--we've never been invited (maybe they're
afraid we'll start cutting up collector value cars)! I would estimate
that the TTOS and TCA is well above 80% three rail members.
Am I saying that we ought to split into a half dozen smaller
groupings--heck no, but promoting the scale might best be handled just
that way.
Pay attention to what Mike Marmer says about product cycle and
advertising. I nearly served on a jury that involved a food
manufacturer suing a grocery store owner for not giving him shelf space
that they had co-oped for.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 11/17/11 5:12 PM, David Heine wrote:
>
> When it comes to converting people from other scales, the AF
> association is a definitely a problem. I have known people who were
> contemplating the change to S but the AF association turned them off,
> at least that's what they told me. This is a much greater problem than
> the name of the organization; although the use of gauge can be easily
> construed to preclude those who don't model standard gauge because
> they are technically not modeling in S gauge.
>
> IMHO, the best way to build highly detailed models, modules, and
> layouts and have then seen by others. Let's face it, the main
> advantage of S is its size. Big enough to have a presence that smaller
> scales can't at our normal indoor layout viewing distances, but small
> enough that the buildings and other structures don't get so huge like
> in O scale.
>
> If I followed my own words, I should be in the basement instead of on
> this computer.
>
> Please note that I don't have any personal antagonism to AF. In fact,
> I still have my childhood AF, but none of it will ever be on my layout.
>
> Dave Heine
> Easton, PA
>
>
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