OK, it looks like I posted it on the wrong forum, but look at the original posting and comments. Lionel comes out with a very nice, more modern piece of rolling stock (which we don't get in S), and there are "those" who complain about the same things we see in S. That is, "not my prototype", "why not x of y", etc. I'd be happy just to see something like this in S. But you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself. To borrow from a song...
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S Scale America/Des Plaines Hobbies has one. Picture is of a test shot, you'd have to check with Des Plaines about availability:
It's been out for a while, I just haven't been following it.
Rusty
Rusty Traque posted:S Scale America/Des Plaines Hobbies has one. Picture is of a test shot, you'd have to check with Des Plaines about availability:
It's been out for a while, I just haven't been following it.
Rusty
Yeah, but it's not my road, the prototype isn't my era, it looks like a kit and I want RTR, there are too many rivets along one side, there aren't the correct number of panels, it's plastic, the couplers are 2 scale inches off, and I don't like the color.... 
That's my point. The O gauge guys have just about said the same things as I've seen on our side of the train spectrum. Some folks are too picky. I understand being particular, but like another song said you can't always get what you want. So modify what's out there and be creative! It seems like train guys are train guys, no matter the scale. I guess I'm just venting...
Seriously, I'd forgotten about the S Scale America offerings. I'll probably get a couple eventually. I'll be at the upcoming Spree and will be looking.
I understand what you're saying, Jerry. There's a fair amount of that going on here on the Scale side of S.
I'm hardly a rivet counter, but if something doesn't look right to me proportionally, that usually where I draw the line, (like O27 stuff on S trucks.)
My modeling is generally late 50's-early 60's, so modern/contemporary stuff is only a passing interest to me. I probably have more that I really should have.
However, one thing I seem to get hung up on is freight cars equipped with Westinghouse KC-style brake systems.
The KC brake was totally outlawed for interchange by 1935 and consequently I don't run the cars I own that have it. (Note: Many cars converted to the AB style brake system still retained the vertical brake staff.)
Really, you can barely notice the brake systems under normal viewing, but still it bugs me.
Go figure...
Rusty
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