From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Bob,
Thanks for picking on us. Yes, I am in the High Rail club, but we have one member(Bill Clark) that does the "The Roundhouse" article in the s gaugian magazine. The DC scale club can run High Rail wheels on one of the loops they have on their modular layout. They are mainly scale wheels and couplers. I wish they had a website like we do. I promote our train shows on this and the other yahoo groups. As I have said the NMRA is present at our 2 shows, and I may join them. One thing I have noticed lately is The dispatch magazine is showing more scale layouts than high rail layouts. Ours will be featured in a future issue. If you go to www.lonestarflyer.com you will see what we have done , aand more changes are coming. Wish you could come up here next year, We can go down there in return. Alan Lambert ________________________________ From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:38 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} NASG Membership Interests: was S Gaugers in the NMRA I have suggested before that we change our termonology somewhat and rid ourselves of the AF catagory. In fact right now, if I were starting out with one of the new Lionel/AF engines with scale wheels, I would have to answer that I was an AF only member, when in fact I was really in 'scale'! This doesn't make sense! Just imagine this...you attend the next show in the Dallas region. I'm going to pick on those guys because they have two layouts one hirail and the other somewhat scale from what I hear. I walk up and ask someone--who made that neat diesel? "Oh, that's a new offering from Lionel and it's running with an Am Models SD-60". Well I just have a bunch of old AF in the attic--will they fit my track? Somebody answers back..."Well it'll fit your old AF track if you get the right wheels for either of them. Now our layout uses..." Now the question is--which layout did I visit????? The answer is either or both--it just doesn't make much difference anymore. I wished I still had my copy of a paperback book that Gilbert put out making the case for S in comparison with 3 rail of the time. They concluded, if my memory is correct, that Gilbert AF S gauge products were indeed hi-rail. Why do we have to divide ourselves into so many divisions. If Gilbert could make that statement in the mid 50's why can't we accept that 65 years later? Bob Werre On 2/20/13 8:54 AM, Peter Vanvliet wrote: >Chris, > >Here are the facts from the NASG Online Membership: > >17% is A.F. only (no other interests). >13% is scale only (no other interests). >3% is hi-rail only (no other interests). >0.3% is narrow gauge only (no other interests). >There are zero collectors-only with no other interests. > >70% has expressed interest in A.F. in addition other interests (hi-rail, scale, narrow gauge, etc.) >
