--- In [email protected], "John Picur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The biggest drawback to modern cars is they are long -- usually too
long to successfully negotiate those tinplate curves, My experience is
that the collectors generally specialize in the AF collectables and
will have no interest in a 60-foot anything that does not come in a
Flyonel box.
>
> Atlas O has found this out, too, with their longer cars. Their
current spring sale list is chock full of 3-rail modern cars,
> From my observations, the most successful productions satisfy the
majority of the S market by being in the 40-50 foot range. This means
prototypes that were common no later than the 1960s. Cars can be
longer if you offer Talgo-style truck and coupler combinations but
these require compromises that defeat the purpose of the product in
the first place.
>
Hi John, It might take some effort but it could happen. It took a
long time for Lionel guys to accept MTH, K-line and AtlasO but they
eventually decided that the new well made stuff was worth breaking
ranks for. The scale sized 3 rail O gauge equipment is designed to run
on 36 inch radius so the S scale stuff would have to run on an
equivalent flyer sized curve, maybe 24 inch radius? What does SHS
recommend for their cars with big flanges?
I'm sure atlasO has already made their profit on the modern cars,
they've sold tons of them over the years and they are still coming out
with new ones.
I think the flyer guys would buy some of this new stuff once they
saw how nice it is? Do they really want to buy the same old stuff over
and over till they die? I don't mind any compromises if they produce a
scale sized body I can change the trucks and couplers a lot easier
than building the whole car from scratch or going without! Probably
half of my O scale stuff started as 3 rail and has been converted to 2
rail, so flyer to scale seems pretty easy to me. Even N scale stuff
comes with big flanges and talgo couplers and has to be converted,
it's just part of modeling!!...dave
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