HI Tom -- If they are not toys, what are they? They are not necessities – not clothing, housing, food or procreation—though they are entertaining, like toys. I have enough wrapped up in my trains over 50 years to have bought a very nice Mercedes, but they are still toys and they serve no useful purpose other than to entertain and satisfy my creative side. In fact, my wife would rather not be in a house large enough to house my nuttiness, but she is a trooper and knew what she was getting into when she married me 40 years ago...
In any case, have fun with your whatever you want to call them! Bill Winans ------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: shabbona_rr Whose going to take the bull by the horns and tell Brooks Stover that his layout is just a toy and not a scale model? --------------------------- I'll give you a better one. I've seen the HO scale model of the Solano Railcar Ferry ( http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Solano_Ferry_Model.html ), and I've heard Bill Rubarth describe the immense amount of research he and associates put into building it. I'd like to see one of these "they're all toys" yoyos look Mr Rubarth in the eye and tell him it's just a toy boat, and then start talking about the little boats he had in the bathtub when he was a child. Most of us in model railroading have model rolling stock & structures that we have modified & improved by studying photographs of other sources of prototype information, or, if not, we rely on reputable manufactures to have done that and got reasonably close. A three-dimensional model that attempts to accurately represent something in the real world is no more a "toy" than is a two-dimensional representation, a painting. Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
