Right you are, Bill in Florida. Beyond the experience of SHS, Lionel could have checked out how Weaver in O-scale does it. That company offers diesels in both scale and tinplate. I have no experience with O-scale but have purchased a few small items from them as presents for relatives. Their stuff must work in both scale and tinplate formats. Point is Lionel has firms whose experience in offering both scale and tinplate items could be instructive.
Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Bill Nielsen [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: U33C - additional comments I forgot to mention in my earlier post that the exposed spur gears along one side of each truck as seen on the U33c is another design flaw, for either tinplate or scale operation. Multiple spur gears are noisy, even if they are not exposed as they are on the U33c, and when they are left exposed, they tend to accumulate anything near the layout that can jam the gears. For a train running on temporary tracks laid out on the floor, as many toy trains would be run, this problem is even worse. If Lionel had been serious about marketing to both Toy Train Collectors and Scale Modelers, all they would have had to do is look at how S Helper Service does it, which should have been easy for them since presumably they were built in the same factory up until the time Sanda Kan stopped producing products for so many of the smaller American companies. Bill in FL ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ 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/
