--- In [email protected], "gsc3" <gsc3@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
The loss of Varney was a minor blip in the HO world.
HO had Athearn, Model Die Casting, Mantua/Tyco, Walthers, PFM, Tenshodo, Akane,
LMB and a host of others to fall back on when Varney went out of business.
They continued to supply the variety of hobby needs from the basic to advanced
HO model railroader.
In the 50's and 60's (and up to the 80's,) S Scale was still stuck in the
"scratchbuilders scale" mentality, which seeing that scratchbuilding takes
place in all of the scales, was not a major selling point to draw new people in.
Rich G(ajnak)
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