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Disclaimer: I'm an O-gauger, and too old now to start over in another scale.  I always thought American Models and S-Helper Service were great products.  Their 2000-era offerings made me jealous (and still do!)  I get where you're coming from, and share your lament for the lack of new product.  But I love steam, and I stand in awe of some of the amazing upgrades Ed Goldin, Carl Tuveson, SnS Trains, and others have come up with for postwar Flyer.  Can motor retrofits!  Single-cut worm gears with scale gear ratios!  And that guy in the silver hall at York who builds the large-stack motors.  We don't have ANY of this for postwar Lionel.  The thrill of fast running wears off in adulthood.  So now these venerable toy trains are being dumped onto the trading tables and sold by the pound like so much irrelevant scrap metal.

O gauge experienced a schism beginning around 1990.  Yes there were many new products.  But many of these so-called "scale" models rely on failure-prone electronic gimmicks to achieve smooth operation.  Parts supply is hit-or-miss.  And probably 2/3rds of this scale stuff languishes in boxes, because it takes a lot more than a spare room to do it justice.  Meanwhile... your trains are scale-proportioned, and exactly the right size for Plasticville and Hot Wheels.  Decent size, operation, and credible appearance in a modest space!

Please don't hate me for saying so.  But from the outside looking in, your glass is more than half full.  Holding out for the last couple of drops wouldn't seem to make so much difference.

Last edited by Ted S

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