--- In [email protected], Peter Vanvliet <groups@...> wrote:
> "M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced the remaining Norfolk Southern
> Heritage Series diesel locomotives that will make up the entire NS
> Heritage Series roster announced in the 2012 Volume 2 catalog last
> April. As originally detailed in April, M.T.H. will be promoting three
> series of locomotives based on the Norfolk Southern Heritage Series of
> real-life SD70ACe and ES44 diesel locomotives.
The fact that they are promoting these vanity schemes makes me think they
don't understand the scale model railroad market as well as they do the toy
train /collector market.
Scale modelers want to model the typical, not the unique. If NS has a 100
diesels in plain black for every 1 loco in heritage scheme the modern NS scale
modeler is not gonna run out and buy a heritage loco. and the beauty of model
railroading is we can pick our own year to model so an SP guy can model 1995
and pretend UP never existed so they are never gonna buy a heritage scheme. So
although they will sell some they should not make any decisions on the
viability of S scale modeling sales potential from the results. ....DaveBranum
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