"Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote: > Check out Lionel's new cylindrical hopper. Except for wheels and couplers, it is a scale model. The pad already exists to mount a Kadee coupler. New wheels from NWSL (if they fit?) and you will have a scale model. Futuristic assumptions about Lionel, or anyone else, are sometimes prone to error.
Hi Ed, you are totally correct on your Lionel facts. Lionel O stuff is right up there with Atlas O in quality and prototypical realism, if they make the same stuff for S that they make in O we'll be very happy with it.The proto 48 guys even use the 40 foot PFE ice reefers for P48 models and everyone knows how picky those guys can be :>) ..DaveBranum Thanks Dave... And, to make another point, there is at least one O fella that has a thriving business taking Lionel O (gauge, 3-rail) freight car bodies and replacing the trucks with ATLAS O trucks and selling them to the 2-rail O scale crowd. The O scale crowd is happy to have them. It appears the O Lionel trucks are not wonderful and the ATLAS trucks are better. If Lionel ever makes a new O freight car truck, this guy is outta business quick. It would appear (to me) that Lionel is sort of moving in the same general direction of greater realism with the S market as well. It will take some time, but if we do not upset the apple cart with gripes/complaints, the train might actually reach the station. If the train stops short of the station, the resulting walk we take to the platform might be quite short. Optimistically.....Ed L. www.Sscale.org
