Reply to "LOTS OF NEW AMERICAN FLYER ITEMS IN THE 2018 CATALOG"

Rusty TraqueOGR Forum Member

banjoflyer posted:
Brendan posted:
They seem to interchange R20 (20" radius) and S36 (36" diameter?) in the descriptions
Brendan
Yeah I never could figure that one out. Most S runners use the r20 description. Maybe at some very early point Lionel was trying to make S into an O gauge clone????.......................
i.e. O36 is the same as S36? Who knows. Even the innermost measurement of the roadbed of an r20 complete circle is larger than 36". With any attempt at clarity they should refer to the standard S scale Fastrack as S40. Then they can describe larger curves as S54...etc.
Mark

Lionel catalogs are notorious for cut-and-pastitis. O36 is the "standard" O gauge Fastrack curve included with their starter sets.

I wouldn't get my shorts in a knot about it. Does anybody seriously believe the Flyer waffle sided boxcar with the standard Flyer stamped metal frame can't go around R20?

Besides, Lionel doesn't even make an "S36" curve. Nobody does, in fact.

And if they can get the Y3 around R20:

Even S Scale America and the Lionel cylindrical hopper cars (with body mounted Kadees to boot!) will do R20:

And AM's Budd cars:

Much ado about nothing IMHO.

Rusty

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