--- In [email protected], Bill Lane <bill@...> wrote:
>
> Atlas O - including 3 rail
> https://secure.atlasrr.com/ato1/index.asp
>
> Atlas HO
> http://download.atlasrr.com/Winter2013/2013Wintercatalog3-23.pdf
>
> Atlas N
> http://download.atlasrr.com/Winter2013/2013Wintercatalog24-46.pdf
>
> Bowser
> http://www.bowser-trains.com/
>
> Kadee
> http://kadee.com/
>
> Accurail
> http://www.accurail.com/accurail/
>
> Broadway Limited
> http://www.broadway-limited.com/
>
> Con-Cor
> http://www.con-cor.com/
>
> What do they all have in common? They are all making high quality model
> trains - today - true contemporaries and to some extent competition to Lionel
> and MTH
>
> Plus 1 other thing in common...
>
> NOT ONE lamplighter smashing shoe shine boy cattle poker accessory to be
> found anywhere in ALL of these websites. This is where S hopes to pull the
> serious modelers from other scales.
>
> I guess we are now truly blessed with something the other scales don't have...
>
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
Simple question then. If S SCALE could survive and grow WITHOUT the toy train
aspect, it should've/would've have done so a long time ago.
If we use this anti-toy train logic, folks SHOULD have been moving raiply to S
when American Models started and SHOULD have been practically stampeding to S
when SHS started up. Pacific Rail Shops SHOULD have drawn in even more
modelers.
Overland came and went. Sunset came and went. What would have happened if Des
Plaines hadn't picked up Pacific Rail Shops? Anybody remember Modern Models???
What happened? Where are the masses? What are they afraid of? We can't just
blame the American Flyer connection.
When I got into S, folks in the scale were still thumping their chests saying
you'd better d*mn well like scratchbuilding because S is "the scratchbuilder's
scale." Apparently, it was considered like it was a badge of honor to be so
exclusive.
Simple fact. S has been stagnent because of the LACK of a major, big-name
manufacturer to provide some cover for the likes of AM and the former SHS.
BTW, Atlas O still sells more 3-rail than 2-rail. And there's still quite a
bit of low-end HO and N being manufactured out there.
The club I used to belong to is primarily a Flyer club and they were FAR
friendlier to the few lonely S Scalers than we seem to be towards the Flyer
folks here.
Pogo had it right...
Rich G(ajnak)
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