I disagree that the 2-rail community will not support plastic. I know there are some 2-rail collectors out there who insist on brass and will not buy plastic. However, I think they are a minority of the 2-rail O scale community.
I think most of us just like good models built by whoever out of whatever..................
........I think the O Scalers that have operating layouts have no problem with using plastic cars.
+1.
And I think the same holds true for locomotives. There is just historically less variety in good [ either visual or operating or both ] plastic locomotives to choose from. It's slightly analogous to asking why [ scale ] 3-railers don't buy more plastic steam locomotives.....
david1, how many 2-rail only 0 shows have you been to ?
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I have been to only a couple of local O scale shows and I liked them allot.
As far as plastic steam locomotives go I say why not! would they be cheaper to build? I just don't know. Would people buy them, who knows.
MTH did make gauge one steam locomotives from some sort of plastic so it could be done.
