Re: #3000 -Honesty in Advertising?
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I agree, I'm not interested in prototypicalness of vintage models other than maybe seeing what they were 'trying' to reproduce.??
I'd be more interested in efforts to produce similar data on other vintage mfgs with a focus on complete correct data.. (i.e. Not Trovestar)
Tony Cook? did a nice page in HO (with a bit of N)? Something like that in N would be great..?
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 08:26 G.J. Irwin < groups@...> wrote: Dave and all,
I think it's fair to say that only a small fraction of N Scalers today have even a modest interest in A1G.?
Of those, I really wonder how many are that interested in how 50 year old tooling aligns with the prototype-- particularly obscure ones like the 3000 series.? If anything, there's more concern with whether the railroads for which the cars are decorated even owned these cars.? (The most spectacular example I can think of on this is not A1G: the AHM/Roco "Flexi-Flo" pressurized covered hopper, which was not offered in a single roadname for which it actually existed, and was not offered for the New York Central, which actually owned them.)
If someone other than me is willing to take an N Scale Ruler and check out the key dimensions for A1G equipment, sure, I'll eventually modify the pages.? But I'd submit that it's well known that these are models at 1:160 proportion which were restricted by the available technology... Even now with 2019 models, it's not perfect, and probably will never be 100% spot on.
Cheers,
George
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