--- In [email protected], "richgajnak" <rustytraque@...> wrote:
> The three rail world was pretty stagnant before MTH burst on the >scene with
> their own product. Lawsuits not withstanding, the >competition between
> Lionel and MTH has benefited 3-rail O,(and to >some extent 2-rail scale O)
> bringing more people into O, drawing >from the other scales, bringing new
> people in and even awakening >some nascent model railroaders.
Yeah, the competition drew in a lot of folks to 3 rail and even pushed Atlas
in making a new line of O scale in both 2 and 3 rail.
All the activity probably saturated the O market way above it's normal state
so now S looks like fertile ground to them. S scale is bigger than HO for the
size junkies but the average house will hold more S than O stuff so it seems
like a natural evolution. The big wild card is can they attract enough HO guys
to make it pay from both directions? They will need to understand what drives
the HO market if that's gonna happen, just catering to the toy train crowd is
not gonna do it...DaveBranum
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