From: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Arlington, Texas John, The Lionel American flyer diesel engines were never ment for "scale". Look at Lionels O guage loco's. You will see the same thing. It is the easy way out. Send them the tooling that you think it would take to make the change. At least we have "New" American Flyer. Scale guys will never be satisfied. Jim needs to come up with a scale conversion to qwill that distasteyou have. Thanks, Alan
________________________________ From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:32 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Pricey [... but nothing] --- In [email protected], "John Degnan" <Scaler164@...> wrote: > I "MIGHT" have been able to get past the oversized deatils... but that > pivoting pilot DESTROYS the model for me... and I will not be buying any. > > STUPID move, Lionel... just plain STUPID... because you COULD have done so > much better. But honestly, it is exactly what I expected from a toy train > maker that doesn't give a !#!%!&! about modelers. > They are a toy train manufacturer and have been for a long time so it makes sense that they build for the guys who they know will spend the money. So the pivoting pilots don't work as a scale loco ,that don't mean their freight cars won't be usable cause if they follow their O practice they will be very nice pieces. A new set of trucks or wheels sets and some Kd's and they should make a fine model. I really don't care if the big road diesels are scale or highrail as they are too big and take too long a train and too much space to look realistic running no matter how scale the loco might be but if they make money and cause lionel to build more freight cars I'm all for them. Being anti Lionel is not thinking very far ahead if you really want more S scale equipment to be produced....DaveBranum
