Well, Phil, I'll admit the secondary market is a bit slim, my usual exposure is the Fall S Fest held in Milwaukee, Chicago, Rockford-Beloit and St. Louis on a rotating basis, usually in November.
There's also the Spring S Spree held in Ohio and the various NASG Conventions.
I think the Central New Jersey folks also hold an annual event.
All these events are open to everyone, no memebership required.
Lionel also made a very nice USRA light Pacific and Mikado, along with the recent Challenger and the soon to be released Y3a. Admittedly, these are all deep flange and AC/TMCC or Legacy.
We keep plugging away for scale flanges and DCC steam on the new Flyer, hopefully we might get it one day. It was a major surprise to us that Lionel's doing scale flanged diesels with the U33C and SD70. Plus DCC compatibility for the diesels is in the works. I think Lionel's waiting to see how well both the DCC and scale wheel diesels are accepted by the scale crowd before commiting to steam.
Some of the boys on the S Scale Yahoo board have been rather critical about Lionel's recent offerings. It's usually a pretty good group over there but there are a couple of boisterous uber-modelers over there that refuse to accept today's reality. And yeah, the format is clumsy compared to here. But my evil twin sticks around over there anyways.
Rusty
