Rusty:
Your news couldn't have arrived at a better time. I'm very glad it looks as if MTH has not screwed with a good thing and broke it.
I will not be posting in the current Flyonel GP7 thread, for I don't want to poo-poo in it... but I will say here that if the "new and reworked" GP7 is what Lionel thinks is a good direction for the S crowd: Wow. I'm flabbergasted. So many steps backward I can't count them. Seems their "new and improved" GP7 represents a lot effort/money expended on a product that will end up looking terrible. Even if I were in AF/Hi Rail, I would reject that thing.
I say the above paragraph to lay the foundation for this: It is now my feeling that MTH, as slow and sluggish as they are, is really the only mfg'er between the two that the scale S enthusiast has any hope of receiving good product from.
I suspect that Lionel does NOT have a workable, long term, vision for S scale, especially within the scale persuasion. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt that I am.
