For those who are truly concerned about S scale growing I thought I would
share some thoughts. I bought the Model Railroader back issue DVD from
Kalmbach. I've been reading a lot of the late 40's and early fifties issues.
In those issues are plenty of S supplier support. There are quite a few
articles on building in S. There are kids buying American Flyer. There are
prototype passenger trains to ride and stations to go down to. During this
period S grew according to MR to 8%. (I suspect most were American Flyer.)
Yet with kids getting Christmas trains and support from suppliers and
articles in MR within 15 years S was almost dead. If those things couldn't
keep S from going from around 8% in the late 40's/early 50's to moribund by the
mid-sixties, are those things going to revitalize it now? What's different in
the world that those things couldn't keep S a major player then and that they
will keep it a major player now?
I don't have a answer, but I think if the above things didn't keep S growing
over the past 60 years, why would they now? Sorry, I wasn't going to post, but
thought I would share what I'd observed.
Some will say that lack of Gilbert support was the cause. Varney was big in
the 1950's and basically gone in the 1960's. But HO didn't die because it's
former major supplier disappeared.
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