Just a bit of perspective from my ³reality:² 55 years in the news business has shown me the best of humanity and the worst. The internet reflects this also. It is easier to criticize in this medium than face to face for instance. I think that we would all be more polite and understanding in person.
The ³line² between S scale/hirail/hiscale is and has been blurring for years now, ever since the technology and cheap overseas manufacturing presented importers/distributors with the opportunity to offer models closer to prototype. As others have pointed out, when you get right down to it, the absolute fidelity to scale, like the absolute truth, Is pretty hard to attain. The best any of us can do, IMHO, is to STRIVE towards the ideal. We will never fully create perfect in this life. I stick with the list in spite of the occasional rants that we all sometimes get sucked into because 99% of the time I pick up really good and useful information relating to S. I see the squabbles as those of sort of an extended family. At the end of the day we are all related by our common interest in things S. Not saying we ARE children, but just as bickering three-year-olds fight one minute and then are all smiles and playing the next, threads all run their course and in a few hours or days, then all is back to normal. What the heck, it ain¹t brain surgery. It¹s just trains, guys :) With cheer :) Roy Inman
