Or, one could pay $79 for a scale stock car KIT from a certain manufacturer, no couplers included.
It takes 10~22 months to produce tooling, etc., for new products. I think, with all due respect, that some folks are expecting too much, too soon. Roy Inman From: Bill Nielsen <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:12:42 +0000 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: MTH "S" catalog new releases I certainly will not be buying any new S scale rolling stock from MTH, especially not at those new prices. Sixty bucks for a freight car is bad enough, especially considering there is nothing produced from any new tooling, but they are really sticking it to the scale community by forcing us to pay an additional amount for the scale wheels and truck spacer that S Helper included in the box. The actual price for a scale car with the scale wheels and truck spacer comes to almost $75 per car. I think that MTH really doesn't want to be bothered with the scale market because scalers are just too demanding, wanting models to conform with actual prototype designs and details, and be decorated to match prototypical paint schemes. Their DCS control system is said to be compatible with DCC, but what about those scale modelers running on straight DC, or those Flyer enthusiasts running on straight AC? I suspect that the DCS boards may have a problem with at least one of those types of controls, if not both and likely will require wiring modifications to disable expensive electronics that the buyer has been forced to pay for, even if they don't need it. Bill in FtL
