If your plan is to sell complete locomotives RTR including the drive, then I agree.
There is an alternative market of selling a shell designed to fit on a specific drive. If the maker that drive chooses not to sell bare drives, the modeler can still purchase a full locomotive with the target drive, and junk or re-sell the shell. Unless the maker of the drive is so determined to avoid "competition" that he drops the model using that drive, or re-engineers it so that it no longer fits the after market shell, there is little that company can do to prevent the after market shells use. Several companies did this in HO in the past, with relative success. One was eventually purchased by Athearn (maker of the drives they used). I'm sure others are still there. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 8/17/12, ctxmf74 <[email protected]> wrote: > "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote: > > But the rubber meets the road when someone > > starts looking at making complete locomotives. It > should be all or >nothing at all. You could wind up > in big trouble being dependant on >some other > > company for major components needed to complete your > locomotive - >again especially if they are in your same > market. > > > > Plus the big guys have the resources to make a > complete RTR loco for about the same price as a kit. SHS > (now MTH) American models, and Lionel all can do it, we just > need to be patient and work with what they build till the > product selection expands. I view S as being in about the > same place O was when MTH first moved into that market.A few > nice items to catch the attention of fence sitters then it's > off to the races. :>) ..........DaveBranum ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
