Ed, Back in March, I wrote to “Jon” at Lionel, using my most persuasive arguments to convince them to produce scale items. Looks like we will all have to soldier on without them. I think we have our best chance with MTH anyway.
Roger Nulton From: Ed Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Lionel and scale wheels > I do apologize we will not be making any scale wheels. > Lionel At first glance, it sounds like an official Lionel decision based on slow sales/reservations of a toy-like modern diesel with scale wheels which will not run on conventional DC and was never advertised outside of a single page in the catalog. I wonder how many folks, besides myself, wrote to Lionel asking for transition era equipment and explaining that folks interested in modern engines are quite the minority in S scale. Not to mention other minor tweaking to make it much more appealing to the scale modeler. "S"orry to hear the news....Ed L. PS: Fred Rouse....wanna sell some wheelsets as part of a scale conversion kit for Lionel locos? Contact me if interested.
