From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Rich, You nailed with your last sentence. "cut both Liomel and MTH some slack". Time will tell. Alan Lambert
________________________________ From: richgajnak <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 1:10 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: The "York" Conversation --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, "gsc3" <gsc3@...> wrote: > I can't see Lionel ever going scale wheels. Not in their genetics. > > George Courtney Lionel made scale wheelsets available to purchasers of the first run of U33C's at no extra charge. Included with the locomotive are brackets for the Kadee 805. The second run of U33C's and first run of SD70ACe's are available to be ordered with scale OR hiral wheelsets. Now, that said, Lionel is still fumbling around regarding the scale side. It's unclear exactly what they mean by "scale wheels and trucks" for the cylindrical covered hopper. I've leaarned to be a little skeptical of printed copy from both Lionel and MTH. Right now, I'm taking it to mean they're not installing the standard clunky Flyer Bettendorf truck but installing a scale proportioned truck with better metal wheelsets. I don't seriously believe that these won't be packaged ready to roll for a Flyer layout. In their TCA presentation they said something about a coupler mounting pad, but the test shot of the cylidrical hopper whizzed by pretty quick. The TCA cameraman was more concered showing the O gauge verion. I'm afraid we're going to have to wait until these things show up. But, we're going to have to cut both Lionel and MTH some slack. They're not used to dealing with us. Rich G(ajnak)
