From: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Hurst, Texas Dave, American Models has a new MKT pacific steamer and the 5 car heavyweight passenger cars That are (new). Don't for get the problems that AM and SHS had in China. Lionel is starting to add scale wheels to their "S" rolling stock and new loco's. We all need to sit back and wait. Time will tell where things are headed..If we want something different we need to send a Snail mail and let them know what we would like to see them come out with. Otherwise we are blowing hot air. My 3 cents worth. Alan
From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 10:32 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: MTH NS Heritage Locomotives (follow-up) --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, "raisinone" <raisinone@...> wrote: > Historically brass runs of "Christine" and Schnabel cars have sold >out > rapidly, hardly "typical" models. Hi Jim, I'm sure some heritage locos will sell too but a run of brass cars is not the same thing as a product line designed for the average modeler. Athearn probably sold more plastic boxcars in a day than the average number of cars in a whole brass run. for a scale to thrive it has to have product constantly available and not on order or sold out. Newcomers to S need to be able to buy common items from stock and not be told too bad you weren't here last year or 5 years ago when they made that. I don't see how we can expect to attract new modelers when we make it so difficult to get into the scale.I've been debating whether I should build my new layout in S or just de-compress the design and build it in HO due to equipment availability, so I can imagine how a newcomer can feel about it when I've already got a lot of S stuff and it still seems hard to me. It's depressing when you make a list of things you want for an S scale layout and find they are available cheap and in quantity on ebay in HO scale yet they have not been made in S yet and they may never be. Maybe MTH and Lionel will fix the problem but if they just cater to the high rail segment of S they won't help much. American models and SHS did a good job getting the ball rolling but they lacked the deep pockets to keep the motion sustained.How long has it been since AM has made a new model? I see the same offerings now that I saw when I first looked at S scale many years ago while HO has added a complete new generation of models every couple of years....DaveBranum
