John, S or any other scale can only be considered "perfect" if it suits your needs better than the next size up or down. We all know that if you want to run 200 car stack trains in a bedroom sized layout, you're lucky to make Z fit the bill. If you own a large dry barn and want to run 200 cars trains any scale will do. However, if you want well detailed rolling stock with good mass, want something more than opening a box (like really modeling) and better proportioned trackage, S or O are perhaps the best choices. Limiting one to a shortline railroad is ones choice with a lot of economics involved. If it's not your choice then you re not limited except in your own mind. It's very much like your ideal women--really only in your dreams! and with that I'll bid you all a good night!
Bob Werre PhotoTraxx On 12/30/11 2:04 PM, John Degnan wrote: > > Revisiting this old thread with another thought... I have to ask if > this (below) means that S scalers (in general) should be willing to > settle for shorter cars (and trains) because of the space they > require? If this is the case, then how is it that people see S scale > as the perfect scale? I see this as a HUGE negative. I don't want to > be limited to modeling shortlines and early-era cars and locos... and > not everyone is as limited for space as the next person. > > John Degnan > [email protected] <mailto:Scaler164%40comcast.net> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ctxmf74 > To: [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 07:13 PM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Let's Get Modern > > Problem with intermodal is it takes up a lot of room. The trains are > long and the yards huge so it takes a lot of space to not look > cartoonish. A modern shortline can fit into a much more typical layout > space and the variety of cars can be quite interesting. > > [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/
