@gunrunnerjohn posted:Look at the other forum descriptions, maybe it'll make more sense. The first forum changed name and description.
Now I'm really confused.
Many 3-rail trains are clearly toys, but many are not. Different people will draw the line differently. For example, would discussing a nicely-detailed MTH Railking item be "traditional" (since they're O-27ish), while a Premier item would be "scale"? What if a topic is comparing the two? Is an early Lionel Hudson "scale", but the 1950s version "toy"? How does Hi-rail fit into all of this?
Seems like splitting hairs unnecessarily. I don't get too bothered by a topic being in the wrong category - I just skip it and move on, but I can see the frustration with those whose mis-classified topics get deleted without explanation.
Perhaps the 3-rail scale category's description would be more useful if it said "excludes trains made by Lionel, MTH, Marx, RMT, Williams, etc." (the list could get rather long).
