Hold on guys, Here's a challenge...I recall visiting Brooks Stover's
prior layout more than a few years ago. He had an operating AF coal
tower with some modifications I think. I believe he removed it from his
current layout. I also recall Rusty saying he saved the continuous coal
loader from the East Bay club's layout. I challenge either of them or
anybody else to come up with a scale-like coal loader! Maybe somebody
with some cash (including MTH or Lionel) could come up with some prize
money--kinda like a government research grant!
And furthermore those who attended the joint NMRA/NASG convention in
Pittsburgh will certainly remember a rotary coal dump that worked
correctly every time I saw it do it's thing! There would be nothing
wrong with a great accessory like that on any RR regardless of the rail
size. The rotary coal dump would find a home on my layout since regular
hoppers could be used.
So basically, it's not the operating accessories--it's the appearance of
them that needs to be addressed.
Bob Werre
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On 4/21/13 11:28 AM, up148 wrote:
Well said Bill! We don't always see eye to eye but you said that much
better than I could and possibly saved me from getting booted off the
forum for responding too strongly. This is an "S" scale forum where
everyone is welcome as long as the context of their post has to do
with "S" scale in some form or fashion. Mass produced working S gauge
toy accessories are not scale modeling unless someone it converting
them (somehow) to a reasonable scale model.
Due to the size of our chosen gauge we all need to live in harmony,
which I think benefits both sides of the fence, but we need to accept
the fact that there is a huge difference between an "S" Flyer layout
and an "S" scale layout.
Butch Holtgrieve
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