Dave, After “reliving my Flyer Fantasies” (ie: buying enough of the items I couldn’t afford as a kid), I discovered American Models, brass imports, flextrack and Kadee couplers, and bought a lot of that instead.
Roger Nulton Member of a “dying breed” From: ctxmf74 Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: S Gaugers in the NMRA --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, Michael Greene wrote: >people will come to S from many different avenues. And what will >appeal to >someone coming from HO or N will not be the same as what >appeals to someone >coming to S with the goal of wanting to re-live >the fun of their AF >experience as a kid. The guys coming to S to re-live their childhood flyer fantasies are a dying breed. Any new modelers are going to come from the scale ranks as they were never flyer kids. S should join the ranks of the other scales and grow based on it's perfect size for the folks who want larger than N or HO trains but can't fit in O trains. I would not even mention to potential modelers that it's related to old flyer and just go with flyer being one of the current manufacturers along with American models, MTH, Des Plaines, SMMW, etc. The future can begin now with no looking back. Do the other scales have separate divisions within their ranks? Why should S scale be any different? Flyer can stand on it's own just as 3 rail O does and S scale can stand on it's own just like HO and N scales do. I model in all scales and see no reason to treat S as anything other than a specific size in the range.Maybe new product from Lionel and MTH will get the ball rolling toward more S scale modelers, the pent up demand certainly is there. New cheap product created the unlikely ON30 gauge success so new S product should have it much easier. Where's Bachman when you need him? :>) ....DaveBranum
