--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
> I am giving Lionel the win by a nose for promoting "scale S" by clearly
> dividing traditional American Flyer and their new scale line. But their just
> out modern hopper has ALL very imagineered paint schemes on them leaving the
> modern modeler to paint a very brand new car.
>
Yeah, If Lionel and MTH want to expand the S market they need to cut the
American Flyer cord and just start making S scale models like the HO and N
companies do. I remember seeing American Flyer stuff in the train shop when I
was in HO and it was of no interest to me but then along came that SHS S scale
covered hopper and the light bulb went on, "this scale is perfect". Even AtlasO
doesn't promote their stuff as Lionel trains they call it O. If MTH is wasting
design and production time on operating accessories that don't bode well for S
scale. Lionel bought American Flyer so them making some throw back stuff does
make sense but MTH bought SHS not AF so them building American Flyer type stuff
is a bad sign for future developments. American Flyer is a dead end street.The
scale crowd is just gonna be forced to continue to by HO or O stuff until some
S manufacturer figures this out....DaveBranum
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