As I think I pointed out some time ago, the SHS switcher drive is essentially the Atlas O scale SW-8/9/1200 drive down-sized; the engineering was already therewith a proven excellent unit.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > --- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote: > > Nonetheless I think that much of the resurgence of new "better" 3 rail items > > in the past 25 years has been in a direct result of MTH poking at and > > pushing Lionel. > > MTH was part of it but the real push that got Lionel and MTH making more > scale stuff was when AtlasO arrived. Atlas brought out a very nice line of 2 > rail/3 rail O equipment, much like an O version of SHS stuff. Now that MTH > and Lionel are getting into S scale AtlasS would be the frosting on the > cake.....DaveBranum
