From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Dave, If i remember correctly did Pacific Rail Shops come out with a cylindrical hopper car. Where was the market for them. Now I believe Des Plains Hobbies has that line. Now what abiut highrail wheels on SMMW kits. Is that not where a major market is. High rail guys would love to get out of the collector glut that scale guys think we are in, Yes I'm High rail for now. Only one scale club in my area(30 miles away).WE need more new stuff other than what we have now. We have modern era guys with SD-60's and other diesel power. we are not all stuck in the steam era. Alan Lambert
________________________________ From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:48 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Scale wheels on SMMW kits --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, Michael Ostertag <wsmwrr@...> wrote: > HO has at least 15 different 3 bay covered hoppers > on the market and we can't even get together to get 1 new one > manufactured! All because of the good ole boys club that the AF guys > have built up over the years. That's a big mis-understanding of cause and effect. If the manufacturers wanted to build S scale covered hoppers they wouldn't let the old Flyer guys stop them. S scale has nothing to do with flyers, they are too separate things. Manufacturers could build S scale trains if flyer never existed,If they aren't it's because they don't see the advantage of a size between HO and O scales, if they truly got it they'd already have jumped on the opportunity. To have a strong future S must stand as a scale size not a descendant of toy train line, and to do that it will need more exposure to mainstream modelers and more publicity based on it's size advantages. Stuff like Trevor's new Canadian layout are what will catch the attention of the greater hobby community. ....DaveBranum
