Hi all --
I don’t know how much stuff one needs to have, but I can tell you from
personal experience that there has been more stuff produced for scale S than
most of us can ever use.
For example, I have a lot of standard gauge freight cars (300+) which
includes a number of boxcars. A quick survey of my boxcar types (different
cars, not different paint jobs) shows AT LEAST 21. Open top hoppers
account for at least another 10 types. Covered hoppers have been done in
at least another 10 versions, though I don’t have them all.
I will admit that a number of the different types of cars came from brass
imports, but they still are “countable”.
Only in locomotion and cabooses do we lag behind, particularly for the
“fallen flag” lines like the GN, and that is mostly just steam power as
diesels can be painted for almost anything. With a couple more “modern”
diesels to enter the fleet, we are WAY ahead of where HO was when I was a
kid, especially in performance.
We should count our blessings rather than griping...
Have fun!
Bill Winans
Prescott Valley, AZ
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Not only that, but modeling and sharing the results is why most of us
presumably started doing this, especially in an off-beat scale. If our goal
was the to buy the largest selection of stuff, HO would be the winner
easily.
Pieter E. Roos
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