Michael: I absolutely agree with both your and David Thompson's assessments. This will all take some time...
To your point Michael, I was gazing in my car a few weeks ago musing that a year or so back I would have bet the farm I would never have a new box in that car that was yellow and blue and said "American Flyer Trains" on it. Well now there were three (2 SD70's and a U33) - and you would have owned the farm!! Jim Kindraka Plymouth, WI --- In [email protected], Michael Greene <mgreene@...> wrote: > > I must admit I agree with Earl's overall point. Let's give MTH an opportunity > to actually deliver models and make an evaluation at that point. I will agree > that after looking at the catalog, there are some things that on the surface > I like/am interested in/etc. and some I am not. But to me, experience has > shown these catalogs are generally Photoshop'ed productions at best. > > If as little as four months ago, someone would have told me that I'd be > buying an America Flyer loco to run on my DCC controlled scale layout, at a > minimum I'd probably have made some sarcastic remarks about how unlikely that > was. And yet here we are just four months later I own not 1 but 3 AF > SD70ACe's and IMHO they are an excellent model. Great detail, excellent paint > job, fine running, and support DCC. As with any model there are pros & cons > (they are not perfect and there are always opportunities for improvement), > but it is an amazing step up in AF models from Lionel. > > So as a result I'm willing to give MTH a lot of benefit of doubt until they > actually deliver models and I can put my eyes and hands on them, especially > since they have all the tooling/etc from SHS. > > Regards > Michael > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, tennsgauge@... wrote: > > > > > > > Some of you guys are just too picky with your criticism. ------------------------------------ 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/
