Oh great, they talked to Andy, too. Now we’ll never hear the end of it.
But, seriously, a great article.
‘people with bad eye site can see them better’ - and bad spelling, too.
Funny, I just weighed one of my Dash-9 locos to find it came out at just over fifteen pounds and over 30" long - my Garratt weighs almost 40 pounds ready to roll and is shorter than my nigh-on three-foot long Hudson.
Still and all, it was a reasonably good attempt at a describing LS model railroading by a hack who has plainly never heard of it before - so I’ll give it 4/10.
tac, ig & The Hull-Oakes Lumber Boys
There was a lot that might interest anyone interested in our hobby I feel in the article. Apart from the mention of 1:29, well it was 1:29 Celebration Day yesterday apparently :), there was little science given to ‘blind’ anyone interested in joining us just. All in all good for the hobby I reckon.
Bob McCown said:
Oh great, they talked to Andy, too. Now we'll never hear the end of it.But, seriously, a great article.
hehehe Bring a copy of the article, and I might even autograph it for you at York…
Of course, he mis-quoted me on the milage amount of my track, also… For some reason, he saw fit to double it…
He’s supposed to follow this article up with a larger article sometime this summer, according to John… Guess we’ll have to wait and see…
Good article, Great to see our hobby getting some publicity and Robbie as well.
Andy Clarke said:Well, gaawwlly, that'll certainly make my day...............;)
hehehe Bring a copy of the article, and I might even autograph it for you at York.... :)
Nice to see the hobby getting promoted. The facts can be straightened out after the interest is raised
Interesting article, really interesting and I’m glad it got published, all promotion is good promotion, however just between us, I wish it could have been a little more balanced, if I was a newbie reading it I’d conclude that according to it, I need a great big yard , hundreds, if not thousands of feet of track (at $6 a foot BTW : $200-800 bucks for each engine (cause like Lays tater-chip ya can’t have just one ), not to mention a pricey complicated RC/battery & sound system for each engine in order to do something that’d be taken seriously in this hobby.
Well now, my new layout is tucked into a corner of the garage , has trackage measured in the tens of feet , my engines were priced in the double digits, not triple (or quadruple) , and I use this antiquated system called analog DC …but I still probably has more turnouts and service industries on it than some layouts 10X its size, and ounce for ounce I think its better planned and more fun than quite a lot of the 1/2 acre sized layouts I’ve seen published in GR over the years , but then, I guess I’m just not taking it seriously now am I , I’m just a caveman swinging my stone axe now ain’t I, Just keepin it real…
Ya know, Vic, you are absolutely right. We do tend to get carried away with our excessively large layouts, especially at the various shows.
Steve I wish you all could see the Roger Rabbit-ish way that eyes pop out of folks heads when they see the pizza pizza layout at a show and they realize that it is indeed, large scale in a nutshell, “Wow” is such an understatement
Many times I was told, that they’ve seen the big layouts in the rags and said, “I cant do that” (no room, no, time, no money), or see the Del Oro layout and say, “I cant do that” (again, no room, no time, no money), then they walk by the Pizza and think “Hey, I can do THAT” cause they dont need much room, they dont need to commit years of time, and they wont spend too much money.
Yes I am trying to be the gateway drug to large scale :lol:
Funny thing is, writing or being interviewed for an article is like modeling in Large Scale… Now matter what actual scale, or what you write, it’s never going to please everyone with what’s being said… It’s either too big, too small, or not quite to scale, or doesn’t have enough detail, etc, etc…
I personally think that we all strive to demonstrate and share our hobby in our own way, which is what makes all unique…
Andy Clarke said:Yes sir, different strokes for different folks ;) Ralph
I personally think that we all strive to demonstrate and share our hobby in our own way
Good article. Nice to see large scale being promoted. Dont show this to Rooster he might get jealous.
Yes I agree…However when you did the interview you should have told the truth dad!! HO scale wasn’t even invented when you were a kid!