Jim Carter said:Good one Jim!
I used to teach math to 8th graders. Sometimes when a student's project didn't "scale up" right, we decided to use "rounding error" and applied the 10ft. rule with scales that worked better. Isn't that what the manufacturers are doing? JimC.
Perhaps that’s what they’re doing. Would that mean they never got past Grade 8?
“Oh dear; what can the matter be, **** is so long at the fair”
Could be that we are all staring at the past, and forgetting to look at the future.
With the New Year ready to kick us into gear; maybe we should be speculating what the major Model Railroad manufacturers have up their sleeves.
Will B’mann’s issue of 1:20.3 equipment prove to be a major success. What will the lowest price for it end up being ?
Will Aristo goof up again or learn from their mistakes and become a dependable and admired supplier ?
Will a “New and Improved LGB” hit the market with true scaled equipment; whatever scale they decide on this coming year ?
Can Hartland survive ?
Will Chas Ro, and family keep up with the rest, and find something that hasn’t been produced yet ?
Will the past craze for BIG, BIG locomotives fade to a more useful production of smaller locos, like affordable 0-6-0’s, and 2-8-0’s, in generic designs for standard gauge ?
What will the market expect in new offerings of rolling stock ?
Which manufacturer be first to produce an RPO to match the existing open ended passenger equipment of LGB, or B’mann (US STYLE), or an express reefer ?
Will sales of 1:20.3 rolling stock indicate a real market for plastic passenger equipment at a lower price ?
Will we see an aquareum car in the AMS line, or a Giraffa car....oh heck how about an exploading box car (They may as well produce one, as most of the box cars of theirs I have purchased had parts broken off !!!) ?
Will more intrest be shown in rolling stock purchases than the seemingly, never ending quest to have more locos than cars, by a great number of “Out-of-the-boxers”?
Will intrest in proto style operation grow more amung the “Out-of-the-boxers” ?
Will the likes of B’mann, and Aristo put on a conserted effort to promote Garden Railroading in the multitude of Garden Centres, the world over, or is this to remain the forgotten market place ?
Will we all stop bickering about scale and gauge issues and try to make some concerted efforts towards some needed, SENSIBLE, standards in the Large Scale, model railroad industry?
Aw heck; I might as well add; will anyone read this and have anything useful to contribute; or will it become another place for the knashing of teeth and stomache growels ? !!!!!
Happy New Year to all.
I guess my last posting should have been under a new heading, and a new thread.
I do get carried away with questions and thoughts; sometimes wasting them in an area that doesn’t promote discussion of sensible issues…
If some kind and able person will transferr my last post to a new thread, under the title of “WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEW YEAR< AND THE FUTURE”, I would sincerly appreciate it. My typing finger is in want of a rest.
We might want to try to promote this thread out in the real world, and bring in some fresh thoughts from the few over at other places, that would like the freedom to think and speculate freely. So…tell them about it.