Hey fellows, they are all toylike compared to 1:1 scale. Some are just
more toylike than others.
relax and enjoy the fun as the engines become less toylike:-) !
Rance Velapoldi (Tranby, Norway where the snow is still coming down
)
On 2/14/2013 14:49, richgajnak wrote:
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] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"ctxmf74" wrote:
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> --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"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.
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> 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
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