Not doubting your numbers, but my point focuses on what percentage of these ads
are for realistic ("Scale S" or O) models as opposed to (AF/Hi-Rail or O-27).
Everyone knows that you can get both in O... but how many people know this is
also true for S? My friend, Mr. John Butler of Savannah, GA being made an
example here, is my poster child example, as just 2 weeks back, he and I met at
a train show in Savannah, and he asked me if I was still doing American
Flyer... to which I had to explain (for at least the third time) that I don't
do AF... I do Scale S. For whatever reason... this availability of SCALE
models in S just does not seem to be sinking in to outsiders.
John Degnan
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: ctxmf74
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 01:00 AM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Modern offerings in S
just for fun I checked the ebay model railroading listings and came up with
79,633 O listings and 7,353 S listings or about 10 to 1. A search for O
boxcars with buy it now turned up 8,759 possibilities with the cheapest scale
car at $15 for an atlas /roco 40 footer then a weaver 50 footer for $25.99. A
comparable boxcar search in S scale turned up 509 hits with cheapest scale car
being a 50 foot PRS kit for $27.95 and next an American models 40 footer for
$35. So you can see what S is up against when trying to attract new
modelers...DaveBranum
