Don't forget guys like who went from HO to O because we believed it was just "big HO". We're at the sweetest point of new love, we see no imperfections. Buy more than we need, then bam! Run right in to the wall of reality. Man, I don't have the room to make this thing look "right". At that point the S light came on! I had a kinds is questions but I'm learning to use the same sourcing as the older S heads. But, for whatever reason, I had to make that journey, a very expensive one, before I found S. It is the perfect combination between size and available room. I think there are many that will travel a similar road and at some future point, S will be larger than O in usage. The physical dimension is simply irresistible.
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 6, 2012, at 12:04 PM, "ctxmf74" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- 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 > > > > > > >
