I've stayed out of this discourse, because I'll have to wait and see if anything from Lionel or MTH meets my criteria. However, I would like to make one observation.
I American Models early days, they used wheels wit a flange that would work with either tinplate or scale, I think the flange depth was .039" or thereabouts. Whatever, I still run many of these pieces of rolling stock with no problems on SHABBONA RR, along with the newer stuff, including Code 110 wheels. I have even adapted my Atlas switch conversions to use both types of wheels. Does anybody remember what the dimensions of these early AM wheelsets were, and do they offer a possibility of a compromise in this area? boB Nicholson, (who has done his share of kit-building and AF conversions, and conscripted things to uses for which they were never intended all along) ______________________________________________ --- In [email protected], Ed Kozlowsky <soldado7264@...> wrote: > > Roger, > I don't want to keep this alive, but in the 60s you didn't have any choice > but to build kits, unless you were converting Flyer. And then there was the > time there were no scale wheels available. Let's face it, we're talking > about now not 30, 40, or 50 years ago. Very few model railroaders > (percentage wise) build car and locomotive kits today in any scale. Those > few that do care very much about quality, and yes, that generally means > fidelity to scale including wheels. > > Even if you Hi-Rail guys rework a SMMW kit to meet your needs, it's a heck of > a lot easier than scratch-builing. > > Ed Kozlowsky > Sanford, Maine > sscale.org > ------------------------------------ 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/
