From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas Bill,
that boat is not a "TOY", It is a "SCALE" model of the real thing. It is not made out of tin plate like toy trains were made of. Now there is something to contemplate. Tin plate compared to what we now have. Toy verses scale model. Alan Lambert ________________________________ From: scale S only <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:56 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} "They're all toys." HI Tom -- If they are not toys, what are they? They are not necessities – not clothing, housing, food or procreation—though they are entertaining, like toys. I have enough wrapped up in my trains over 50 years to have bought a very nice Mercedes, but they are still toys and they serve no useful purpose other than to entertain and satisfy my creative side. In fact, my wife would rather not be in a house large enough to house my nuttiness, but she is a trooper and knew what she was getting into when she married me 40 years ago... In any case, have fun with your whatever you want to call them! Bill Winans ------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: shabbona_rr Whose going to take the bull by the horns and tell Brooks Stover that his layout is just a toy and not a scale model? --------------------------- I'll give you a better one. I've seen the HO scale model of the Solano Railcar Ferry ( http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Solano_Ferry_Model.html ), and I've heard Bill Rubarth describe the immense amount of research he and associates put into building it. I'd like to see one of these "they're all toys" yoyos look Mr Rubarth in the eye and tell him it's just a toy boat, and then start talking about the little boats he had in the bathtub when he was a child. Most of us in model railroading have model rolling stock & structures that we have modified & improved by studying photographs of other sources of prototype information, or, if not, we rely on reputable manufactures to have done that and got reasonably close. A three-dimensional model that attempts to accurately represent something in the real world is no more a "toy" than is a two-dimensional representation, a painting. Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
