> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Wolf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I sure hope I'm wrong on this one, but S scale is > > looking like it might be worth a look. > > --- "George Losse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > > > > > Maybe its time to give S Scale another look! > > > > Wait a minutes guys it can't be that bad. If > you think getting > reasonable models at a good price is bad in O scale > wait till you try > S scale, the selection is much worse and the prices > much higher. > I looked into S a couple years ago and bought a > few S cars and > built a little S track to see how they looked and > ran and my > conclusion is there's no substitue for mass when > trying to duplicate > a train and railroad operations, the best detailed N > scale loco > cannot provide as near a feeling to a real loco as > the worst detailed > O scale loco can, in this situation size does > matter,the rolling > qualities, rolling sounds, slack action, etc. are > all scale > dependent. Although S is 3/4 of O size in length the > apparent > comparison in usefull terms if you hold one of each > is that S is > about 3/8 the size of O, the best comparison cars > were the old > athearn O scale metal boxcars compared to the > similiar S version by > permabuilt, put the same details on both and set > them side by side > and you'll see the difference scale really makes. > I have a few of the newer Atlas cars and they > are all better > detailed than all the old standards such as lobaugh, > walthers, > westbrook, etc that everyone holds in such high > regard. Sure the > atlas cars (as well as the other 3 rail cars such as > weaver, k-line, > and even MTH) are not up to brass quality, but they > are readily > available,sturdy,and common enough to be had on ebay > or swap meets > for prices that allow one to put togther enough cars > to run a > railroad without hurting the wallet too much(or > getting the wife too > pissed off) I've gotten about 60 modern era o scale > cars over the > last couple years, there's now way I could have > found or afforded 60 > similiar S scale cars. > Remember the detail of one car is just that..one > car, a railroad > is so much more dependent on track plan, landscape, > buildings, > operations, etc. that the finer details of that one > car don't much > matter. Anything you build with atlas equipment will > be much better > than anything Frank Ellison or John Allen ever > built.....dave > > >
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