Lee: Very well thought out and enlightening comments, spot on, thanks for sharing.
Regrettably the next several posts went right back to generating heat rather than light. Seems appropo of us that it took a few "heat generator" posts following Don's positive news before someone actually acknowledged it was good news! Probably the best we have heard on taht situation in many months! So it goes on a rainy Wisconsin Saturday - good time to head for the basement work bench. In that spirit, does anyone have recommendations (hopefully borne out by experience) of an adhesive to use when attaching the Union Station Products passenger car sides to reworked AM shells? Jim Kindraka Plymouth, WI --- In [email protected], LeeRainey@... wrote: > > > Dave Branum wrote "It still depends on what kind of modeling you want to do. > If most of the stuff is available to create the railroad you want then S can > be a great scale to work with. . . . > If you already have an era and style of layout in mind the list members here > probably already know the supply situation so run it by them. I'd say > 1950-1970 would be a piece of cake for almost any scenario and getting more > difficult the more one moves forward or backward from there, I don't know if > the others will agree with me though :>)" > > Dave is right on track, I think. > > There seem to be two discussions going on here in parallel. One is a > discussion about what is or is not available in S scale (and, by inference, > in other scales). The other is a discussion about what people personally want > to model, coupled with a suggestion of that others perhaps should want to > model it also. > > The first is factual. The store sells vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice > cream, but no strawberry. The second is persuasive: Chocolate is better than > vanilla and anyone who has been eating ice cream professionally for 30 years > knows it. The first discussion generates light. The second is a very fun > discussion, but, despite the best intentions, often generates more heat than > light. > > Those planning to attend the NMRA Regional in Pittsburgh in April 2012 should > catch my clinic on Modeling Mount Union. In addition to a lot of history and > railfanning, I'll be talking about this theme of how available equipment, > space, time and skill point to particular modeling choices. I'll also have a > display of my S Pennsy and Sn3 EBT equipment (just to give you a hint on the > conclusion I reach !) > > Again, for a very thoughtful discussion of this whole topic, I highly > recommend Tony Koester's books The Model Railroader's Guide to Mountain > Railroading (esp. chapters 3 and 5) and his Model Railroading from Prototype > to Layout (esp. chapter 2.) > > Lee Rainey > > > > > > [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/
