On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:07:59 -0400, Gary Chudzinski wrote
> Posted by Roy Hoffman
> Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:45 am (PST)
> While I'm not one to tell our manufacturers how to come up with good
> marketable products, I am somewhat amazed that we don't have a PRR
> K-4. Whenever a new company enters the HO arena, they usually do it
> with a K-4. It seems that the HO companies are falling all over
> themselves trying to produce the "perfect" K-4. Do they know something
> that we don't? A plastic R-T-R K-4 would be a smash hit in S, in my
> humble opinion. Roy
>
> Roy,
> It seems to me that a PRR K-4 is too road specific. To create a larger
> market for SHS, I would think a USRA Light Mike or 0-8-0 would be more
> in line with the 2-8-0 design if they plan to make more steam locomotives.
>
> Gary Chudzinski
>
Hi gary,
Agreed, 100%. The USRA Light 2-8-2/0-6-0 is as common as you can get! Flyonel
blew it when they ignored the S scale marketplace with their version of the
USRA 2-8-2. They also made it harder for someone like SHS to do the USRA
Light Mike in that there is now reduced marketplace in the H-rail/Flyer end,
where all the action is.
cheers,
Andy Malette
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