From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Dave,
Contrary to what you said about the MTH operating accessories. But Lionel did not bring them out first. MTH Railking had the sawmill before Linel brought it out. I know because I have one. And I have more. How do you scale guys with coal cars load them and then unload at the destination point. That is part of having a fully operational layout that most high rail guys enjoy. We don't just run trains from point A to point B without some action. Does that mean we run more prototypical than scale guys. We run full and empty cars just like the real world. At leat I do. Alan Lambert ________________________________ From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:26 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: catalogs --- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote: > I am giving Lionel the win by a nose for promoting "scale S" by clearly > dividing traditional American Flyer and their new scale line. But their just > out modern hopper has ALL very imagineered paint schemes on them leaving the > modern modeler to paint a very brand new car. > Yeah, If Lionel and MTH want to expand the S market they need to cut the American Flyer cord and just start making S scale models like the HO and N companies do. I remember seeing American Flyer stuff in the train shop when I was in HO and it was of no interest to me but then along came that SHS S scale covered hopper and the light bulb went on, "this scale is perfect". Even AtlasO doesn't promote their stuff as Lionel trains they call it O. If MTH is wasting design and production time on operating accessories that don't bode well for S scale. Lionel bought American Flyer so them making some throw back stuff does make sense but MTH bought SHS not AF so them building American Flyer type stuff is a bad sign for future developments. American Flyer is a dead end street.The scale crowd is just gonna be forced to continue to by HO or O stuff until some S manufacturer figures this out....DaveBranum
