I fully agree, it should be defined only in terms of compatibility of the track and wheel relationships. NMRA has only about 20K members overall, last I heard, how many model railroaders are there overall--try at least 100K, maybe 150-200K.
Dave Engle --- On Wed, 2/20/13, scale S only <[email protected]> wrote: From: scale S only <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: NASG Membership Interests: was S Gaugers in the NMRA To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12:10 PM Hi David -- This is an almost impossible to answer question. First off, how many people do NOT belong to any organization, yahoo group or similar, and yet still model in S in any version? We can extrapolate, but at best that is a guess. This particular yahoo group is supposed to be generally scale S modelers, so what you get here would not be an accurate overall answer. You are also not likely to get the narrow gauge input either, though I think we can safely say they are all generally scale – but how many of them (us) are there compared to the total population of S modelers? It is possible that when narrow gauge modelers are included, that they are a significant percentage of the total, but unaccounted for in the usual S scale numbers. Have fun! Bill Winans ---------------------------------- This maybe retread, but what percentage of us use body-mounted couplers, scale flanges and maybe some modicum of detail, without consideration of whether they are NMRA members as such. Dave Engle
