Hello Rachel, Thanks for sticking around. This is really a pretty good group when we don't go off on tangents, knuckle dragging and chest thumping.
You may be picking the ideal time to get into S. In a way, S is also starting over. While the last two years have been somewhat uncertain due to the model manufacturing climate in China, things are looking up like never before. Lionel has finally begun to take the American Flyer line seriously, is expanding offerings to things never before seen in the S mass market and is beginning to court the scale modeler. Whether they succeed with the scale crowd is uncertain at this time is unknown. It's early days yet, but they're new commitment to S can't be denied. Mike's Train House has purchased the well respected S-Helper Service a couple of weeks ago and indicates to have production resuming by the end of the year. We are also looking forward to MTH expanding on the SHS line. Both these companies, with their name recognition and marketing skills, have the potential to put S in the foreground of model railroading, rather than in the background where it has resided over the decades. Then there's also American Models and S Scale America, small companies when compared to Lionel & MTH also affected by the China Syndrome, but are well into the process of getting back into production. There are many other small companies in the S universe challenging the odds, but AM, the former independent SHS and SSA represent the "bread and butter" of the scale. S is the "perfect scale." We say so ourselves. But, I've also heard this recently said by some who aren't in S. So, once again, welcome to S and the group. Rich G(ajnak) --- In [email protected], Rachel Covington <rcovington92@...> wrote: > > The reason for looking into S scale is that true happiness in life as well as > model railroading is achieving balance in your endeavors. First my garden > area is very small and I'm not going to pull a rose bush to put in a > building. While you can run a lot of trains in N scale modeling is > frightfully tedious that small. In O scale the building footprints get to > large for my train area. Lastly, and I mean no disrespect but HO is a lot > like the village bicycle ( enough said about that) I enjoy architecture and > have fun designing then building my own structures. Hence S scale.... > > Rachel Covington > > > > ________________________________ > ------------------------------------ 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/
