--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> We are currently in a lull of new product activity until <skip>
> Bill Lane
>
I'm not going to beat around the bush, I enjoy brass models. While everyone is
pining away, waiting for some sort of epiphany in China; Dan at River Raisin
Models will deliver a bunch of different 0-6-0 switchers in S scale in (most
likely) January. BTW, he has fewer than 8 models unsold...
Someone else mentioned modern I'm in... I do believe there is a lot more
available than most think. Has anyone mentioned Husky Stacks and Coal Porters
from DPH? At DPV we routinely run respectable 50 car, SD40-2 powered
"contemporary" trains. Sure there are some cars missing: coil cars, 53'
mechanical reefers, center beam flats and 85' racks and box cars, but sooner or
later who knows... you absolutely have no business in S scale if you don't
believe "hope springs eternal"!
Last August I spent did some train watching at the Rochelle diamonds; not in
the same league with Fostoria, but only a couple hours from home. Photographed
14 trains in 4 hours; four were double stacks, two unit coal, and the other 8
were total mixes. I'd say S scale right now can respectably cover more than
50% of the car styles I saw that day! More problematic is power... Those 14
trains were pulled by a total of 32 locomotives; 20 were SD70M's or a variant,
8 were AC or ES44's, three C44-9w's and an SD90MAC. S scale can cover exactly
zero of the locomotives seen that day! There's the challenge and the
opportunity!
Jim Kindraka
Plymouth, WI
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