I have to say I felt it belonged in with the tradional 3rail trains, more than tinplate or 3rs. It is one of the locos that marks the beginnings of hi-rail
But it was introduced during the tinplate era. It is scale too. So it fits in anywhere really. But it was a tinplate car puller first.
You could counter point with there is no tin; but cast is well established in tinplate elewhere.
I have to agree, if you only focus on one catagory, you WILL miss out.
There isn't a good reason for the 3rs guys not to run another thread in 3rs focusing on the scale aspects and suppling a link in between the two in each thread.
This type of thread building on tangents and alerting by link has served us well in the past imo, just seems we've strayed from it; ebbs and flows of actively posting members and all.
