Originally Posted by VADarthDad:
Ditto to Big Boy 4005. You can't please everyone, no matter how hard it looks like they are trying:
Every opinion here has an equal and opposite.
Absolutely true! There's no way possible that these manufacturers can cater to every individual's interests and wants. They do their best by putting out massive catalogs with a variety of offerings, but even then there are some folks who will gripe.
I, like some (many?) here, focus on specific road names, and I just accept the fact that since both roads rank nowhere near the major lines most often modeled--NYC, Pennsy, Santa Fe, NS, etc.--I have to take a "wait and see" attitude with each new catalog. Sometimes I'm rewarded, and sometimes I just have to take a pass for a year or more. It's not a big deal, and certainly not worth fretting about because, over time, I have already been "rewarded" with more than enough goodies to maintain and grow my interest in the hobby.
This time, for example, I have listed seven items that I will be preordering from the new MTH catalog--not too shabby for a guy whose interests are focused on lesser-modeled roads. In 2014 or 2015 I may not see anything, but that's okay because perhaps others will be similarly "rewarded" in those years.