Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My feeling is that one of the major manufactures could be encouraged to make up passenger cars in at least two lengths
RE : Are you actually suggesting that two different length models be made? I almost can't believe this. Imagine the expense! > (remember to be viable, these cars would have to fit the typical hi-rail layout and those scale people who need to run shorter length cars RE : WHY?!? We're talking about building "MODELS" here... not American Flyer. It should be done right or not at all. Models do NOT always have to be shorter to work on tighter radius track... many HO manufacturers have found ways around this. Walther is one of these manufacturers... in fact, they started this with their HO model of the same PRR/TTX TOFC F39 flats that BTS now offers in S... the model had two small sections of frame between the truck bolster and coupler that could be cut off to allow the trucks to turn sharper! > (remember many HO Passenger cars are shorter also). RE : Oh REALLY? Since when, and from what manufacturer?!? The ONLY "too short" offering from ANY HO manufacturer that I am aware of is a model from Branchline Trains... but the model just happens to be an exact model of an actual prototype. The only way the model is "too short: is that it is being offered in a paint scheme of a railroad that never owned one of the cars that the model is designed after. I'm referring to one of Branchline Trains' Heavyweight Coaches that are being sold factory painted in a Seaboard Air Line scheme... when in fact the actual prototype that the Seaboard owned was NOT identical to the model... the Seaboard's prototype was either a bit longer or shorter than the one the model represents. So in conclusion, the model is NOT too short... but the paint scheme is inaccurate! And for the record... I do not own any of these models. I sold the ones I had when I found out that they were not accurate representations of my road's prototype. John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gospel Baptist Church www.gospelbaptist.net John's World on the Web www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm Seaboard Air Line Information Collective and Photo Archive www.trainweb.org/seaboard/index.htm Seaboard Air Line Class B-7 40', "Turtleback" Box Car Project http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SALRoundRoofBoxCarProject.htm --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> 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/
