Y'know, the soon to be released PBL 60 ton Shays have: A vertical can motor...
Exposed gears... And heavens to betsy, tender drive! I guess this classifies them as a toy train locomotive! Rich G(ajnak) --- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Ed" wrote: > > The conversation is not about O China drive diesels. It is about the > > Y-3 and SD70 which are S scale/gauge products. > > hi Ed, Well maybe folks are trying to discuss two things at once with me? I > thought it was about toy train drives versus scale drives? If so O is highly > relevant as there are more locos to do direct comparisons with. I may be > wrong but it looks like S is shaping up to be the same battle between scale > and toy train interests that O went thru years ago, and it's funny that a > switcher might be the indicator for both scales. AtlasO built a nice scale > switcher then caved into moans from the toy train guys about it being too > slow(it was only slightly faster than scale speed)not loud enough and no > smoke, so they changed the design of their locos to the infamous twin motored > china drives.The SHS is every bit as nice a loco as the AtlasO switcher so if > MTH ends up building S scale versions of the china drive speedsters instead > of more SHS type locos we'll know scale guys have lost again. The interesting > part of the story is Atlas didn't change their HO or N scale products to be > more toy like, they kept improving them :>) ....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/
