--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
> If the NS Heritage Series was announced, I would have to think hard >about
> the NYC unit. Darn.... And I didn't even want to be forced to >enter the
> modern era. Dang it all.
> With regard to the Lionel U33C, the 2012 version of that loco will have a
> higher gear ratio making for slower top speeds. A nod toward the scale
> modeler, I would assume.
>
Hi Ed, I guess the heritage units are appealing to collectors but for scale
modelers their being such a recent prototype creates the problem of what to run
with them?
The U33C in traditional railroad paint schemes however falls in the time frame
where lots of S stuff is suitable. American models and Des Plaines make it
pretty easy to model the 70's-90's era and that's a good thing as the guys who
grew up in those years are in their modeling primes. I suspect the largest pool
of potential
S scalers would be modeling the era right before the mega mergers when their
childhood railroads still existed. 1996 for SP or ATSF fans for example. The
few years after the mergers were also interesting as the new and old paint
schemes co-existed so there might be some interest in the early 2000's years.
Newer than that and suitable rolling stock gets more sparse, even HO is just
now getting all the really modern era stuff.....DaveBranum
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