Interesting that there was no "evolution" in S, (we Kansans of course do not believe in it as it pertains to animals) because of the long lapse between when Gilbert folded and Lionel began making new stuff. And then big L did not even make track. Or turnouts. Different manufacturers had different ideas, and no Gilbert copyrights. So in effect, we almost have two S "lines" of evolution, as it were: Flyer (AKA Flyonel) and the Johnny-come-lately everyone else. As others more astute than myself have pointed out, A. C. Gilbert would have changed, added, morphed, evolved (gosh I hate that word) the toy company into something different. Who knows, he may have split the Flyer line into Traditional and Scale, offering long (in addition to short) passenger cars, something like MTH does with its Rail King (so-called 027 size) and Premier (scale sized) equipment. Thus the hard-core AF folks would be happy, and the lovable rivet-counting scale people would be...well, happy is probably too strong a word to use here, but at least happier than they are now. But alas, we will never know, and Lionel sure isn't going to come to such a pass anytime soon... Is there no way out of this dilemma?? Offered only partly tongue in cheek :) Roy Inman
> From: Arden Goehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:46:52 -0800 > To: Don Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: S-Scale Modeling Passenger cars > > Dear Don - I think I have finally got the #1 for my 10 top things "S" stands > for = "S"crewed Up! > > track. Although we sell more track than anything else (and most to > people who do not own any of our equipment), I am not sure if we could > ever sell enough track to replace the real miles of AF that was made for > 20 years. > Just my opinion. > Don > > Arden Goehring wrote: > >> Isn't this what S-Helper is working on? It will satisfy "near" scalers, but >> not scalers. >> ============================= > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > 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/
