There there are people like me, who as a kid always liked AF, but dad liked Lionel, so we had Lionel. When I made my own spending money I bought AF and later S scale equipment.
Personally, I like anything that runs on rails, two or three. Roy From: Tom Hawley <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:50:57 -0400 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Size is irrelevant All of this "S is best" stuff reminds me of religion. A naive person might think that if he could just get the facts before someone of another faith, they'd see the light and convert. In fact, choice of faith and choice of scale/gauge are based on a lot of factors that do not admit of rational examination. It has a lot more to do with how one was brought up (AF trains?), who ones's friends and relatives are, and what one has financiall and emotionally invested in his existing faith/scale/gauge. < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < ----- Original Message ----- From: richgajnak . . . . . . . . . . How do you get S into the local hobby shops? I sure don't know... . . . . . . . . . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To rephrase the question, how do you get somebody else to invest his time, money & shelf space on a very questionable proposition. Here are two possibilities - ONE -- You invest time the time and money, and get your hobby shop to stock the goods on consignment. Then the hobby shop has nothing but shelf space invested. You, the True Believer, make the capital investment. The fact that you don't try this suggests that down deep where you're honest with yourself, you know you'd lose your shirt, or end up eating a lot of plastic. I tried it. It didn't earn its shelf space. TWO -- Forget the hobby shop. You buy lots of goods from AM, SHS (as soon as they get going again) &c, and take it to local train shows. And you need a lot of stuff, cars, locos, track &c, so potential converts can see that there's an adequate variety of equipment for modellers of all railroads and all eras. Then, according to what a lot of people seem to think, shoppers at the train shows will walk right past all that Lionel & HO stuff and flock to your tables and your S scale/gauge goods. Either way, the modelling profile of your community will undergo a dramitic change, you will get rich, and all will finally be right with the world. YOU just have to put your money where your track gauge is. Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich http://michmod.com/ [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/ <*> 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/
