--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
Some news from "boots on the ground" as it were.  admittedly, he's a Flyer guy:

http://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/displayForumTopic/content/9736788333367703

And, if there are no signifiacnt changes to the electonics destined for the 
SD70, it will run on DC, DCC, AC and(not or) TMCC/Legacy without modification.

Rich G(ajnak)



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